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  2. William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings

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    The William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings consists of 477 watercolour botanical drawings of plants and animals of Malacca and Singapore by unknown Chinese (probably Cantonese) artists that were commissioned between 1819 and 1823 by William Farquhar (26 February 1774 – 13 May 1839). The paintings were meant to be of ...

  3. Talaarawan - Wikipedia

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    Talaarawan is an EP consisting of six tracks. The opening track, "Karera", was originally written by Nica Del Rosario and was composed by her along with Jumbo De Belen and Jose Miguel Cortes. [ 13 ] Inspired by Del Rosario's own experiences, the song emphasizes the importance of self-care and avoiding societal pressures. [ 14 ]

  4. Tassili Mushroom Figure - Wikipedia

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    The discovery of prehistoric rock art at the Tassili n'Ajjer archaeological site occurred throughout the 1910s, 1930s, and into the 1960s. [5] The popularizer of these figures in particular was Henri Lhote (in publications of 1968, 1973), who associated them with specialized shamanic ceremonies, on the hypothesis that their caves served as sacred sanctuaries.

  5. Aniconism in Islam - Wikipedia

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    The avoidance of idolatry is the main concern of the restrictions on images, and as a result, the traditional form for the religious cult image, the free-standing sculpture, is extremely rare, though examples of freestanding human sculpture do occur in Umayyad Syria and in Seljuk Iran. [17]

  6. Graphics - Wikipedia

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    Example of a drawing. This portrait was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci around 1510, and it might depict the artist himself. It is executed in Sanguine (a kind of red chalk) on paper. Drawing generally involves making marks on a surface by applying pressure from a tool or moving a tool across a surface. In which a tool is always used as if there ...

  7. List of Stone Age art - Wikipedia

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    Australia and parts of Southeast Asia remained in the Paleolithic stage until European contact. The oldest firmly dated rock-art painting in Australia is a charcoal drawing on a rock fragment found during the excavation of the Nawarla Gabarnmang rock shelter in south western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Dated at 28,000 years, it is ...

  8. List of art techniques - Wikipedia

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    Transfer technique (drawing) Trompe-l'œil technique Verdaille example A Chinoiserie Procession of Figures Riding on Elephants with Temples Beyond by Jean-Baptiste Pillement

  9. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    He asked local artists to draw pictures and the shop generated limited edition prints, based on the ukiyo-e workshop system of Japan. Cooperative print shops were also established in nearby communities, including Baker Lake , Puvirnituq , Holman , and Pangnirtung .