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  2. Day and Night (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Along the center, the image is divided into complementary black (right) and white (left), or, as the title suggests, day and night. The birds of the image contradict the overall partition of black and white throughout the image, as the black birds are in the white part of the image, while the white birds are in the black part, each of them ...

  3. Kolam - Wikipedia

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    Kolam ( Tamil: கோலம், Malayalam: കോലം, Kannada: ರಂಗೋಲೆ ), also known as Muggu ( Telugu: ముగ్గు ), Tarai Alangaram ( Tamil: தரை அலங்காரம்) and Rangoli ( Kannada: ರಂಗೋಲೆ) is a form of traditional decorative art that is drawn by using rice flour as per age-old ...

  4. African textiles - Wikipedia

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    The patterns used range from geometric tribal motifs to figurative patterns of humans and animals. Clamp resist dyeing is used by the Kuba. Raphia panels are folded to form a cube and then clamped and dip dyed. The clamps are removed after dyeing to reveal the resist pattern in natural raphia against the usually black dyed background.

  5. Op art - Wikipedia

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    Movement in Squares, by Bridget Riley 1961. Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions. [ 1] Op artworks are abstract, with many better-known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or swelling or warping.

  6. Sillitoe tartan - Wikipedia

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    Sillitoe tartan is a distinctive chequered pattern, usually black-and-white or blue-and-white, which was originally associated with the police in Scotland. [ a] It later gained widespread use in the rest of the United Kingdom and overseas, notably in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Chicago and Pittsburgh in the United States.

  7. Madhubani art - Wikipedia

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    Mithila painting featuring God Shiva - Parvati and the Mahavidyas. Madhubani art (originally Mithila art) is a style of painting practiced in the Mithila region of India and Nepal. It is named after the Madhubani district of Bihar, India, which is where it originated. [ 1] Jitwarpur and Ranti are the two most notable cities associated with the ...

  8. Black and White (picture book) - Wikipedia

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    PZ7.M1197 Bl 1990. Black and White is a 1990 postmodern children's picture book by David Macaulay. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, it received mixed reviews upon its release, but it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1991. The book tells four overlapping stories, each drawn with a distinct visual style.

  9. List of flags by design - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.