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File: Sculpted reliefs depicting Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king, hunting lions, gypsum hall relief from the North Palace of Nineveh (Irak), c. 645-635 BC, British Museum (16722368932) (cropped).jpg
An older, but similar work by O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 (1932), focusing on only a single flower, was sold by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum at auction to Walmart heiress Alice Walton in 2014 for $44,405,000, more than tripling the previous world record auction for a piece by a female artist. [5]
[citation needed] In historic Nasrid architecture, the composition and color of stucco varied depending upon the purity of gypsum stone and additives used to bestow properties to the mixtures such as hardness, setting time, and binding. [25]: 23, 56 The chemical formula for gypsum is CaSO 4 •2H 2 O. Gypsum is the most common sulfate mineral. [29]
Urban Garden is a sculpture by Ginny Ruffner, installed in Seattle, Washington, United States. [1] [2] It depicts a pot, flowers, and watering can. [3] The 27-foot-tall kinetic sculpture was commissioned by the Sheraton Seattle Hotel and weighs approximately 10,000 pounds. [4] [5] The pot is 9 feet tall and 7 feet wide. [6]
Floralis Genérica is a sculpture made of steel and aluminum located in Plaza de las Naciones Unidas, Avenida Figueroa Alcorta, Buenos Aires, a gift to the city by the Argentine architect Eduardo Catalano. Catalano once said that the flower "is a synthesis of all the flowers and, at the same time, a hope reborn every day at opening."
Federal Triangle Flowers is an outdoor 1998 sculptural work by Stephen Robin, installed in Woodrow Wilson Plaza, between the Ariel Rios Building and the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, in Washington, D.C., United States. The installation includes two pieces, one depicting a single stem rose and the other a lily.
Calligraphy is a central element of Islamic art, combining aesthetic appeal and religious message. Sometimes it is the dominant form of ornament; at other times it is combined with arabesque. [ 35 ] The importance of the written word in Islam ensured that epigraphic or calligraphic decoration played a prominent role in architecture. [ 36 ]
Strand was particularly influential in her development of cropped, close-up images. She received unprecedented acceptance as a female artist from the fine art world due to her powerful graphic images. [6] Depictions of small flowers that fill the canvas suggest the immensity of nature and encourage viewers to looks at flowers differently. [2]