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  2. Hierarchical proportion - Wikipedia

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    Hierarchical proportion is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork. For example, in Egyptian times, people of higher status would sometimes be drawn or sculpted larger than those of lower status.

  3. Artistic canons of body proportions - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, Danish Egyptologist Erik Iverson described a canon of proportions in classical Egyptian painting. [2] This work was based on still-detectable grid lines on tomb paintings: he determined that the grid was 18 cells high, with the base-line at the soles of the feet and the top of the grid aligned with hair line, [3] and the navel at the eleventh line. [4]

  4. List of works designed with the golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    As another example, Carlos Chanfón Olmos states that the sculpture of King Gudea (c. 2350 BC) has golden proportions between all of its secondary elements repeated many times at its base. [3] The Great Pyramid of Giza (constructed c. 2570 BC by Hemiunu) exhibits the golden ratio according to various pyramidologists, including Charles Funck-Hellet.

  5. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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    Human proportions marked out in an illustration from a 20th-century anatomy text-book. Hermann Braus, 1921 Drawing of a human male, showing the order of measurement in preparation for a figurative art work (Lantéri, 1903) [1] It is usually important in figure drawing to draw the human figure in proportion.

  6. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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    Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.

  7. Figure study - Wikipedia

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    Beginning in the Renaissance [5] drawing the figure from life has been considered the best way to learn how to draw, and the practice has been maintained into the present. Different drawing techniques and exercises have become standard, including gesture, contour, and mass drawings. For beginners first learning to draw, learning to correctly ...

  8. What's real and what's fake? In the Native art world, the ...

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    For example, Lamar said, the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana, has demonstrator space set aside for artists to showcase their process and sell their art. 'We want to preserve that ...

  9. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    The Art of Painting by Jan Vermeer. The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought.

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