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  2. Body fluids in art - Wikipedia

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    New York artist Vincent Castiglia uses his own blood to make paintings, [2] and used it to make the artwork on the guitar of thrash metal musician Gary Holt. [3]The Anguished Man, an allegedly haunted painting by an unknown artist, contains the artist's blood in its paint, according to its owner.

  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Overdrawn at the Memory Bank is a 1984 science-fiction television film starring Raul Julia and Linda Griffiths (pictured).Based on a 1976 short story by John Varley from the Eight Worlds series, the film takes place in a dystopian future where an employee at a conglomerate, played by Julia, gets trapped inside the company's computer, where he is monitored and later abetted by a character ...

  4. Chiburi - Wikipedia

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    Chiburui (血振るい), also called chiburi, [1] is the process by which one symbolically removes blood from a sword blade. The term chiburui can thus be translated as "shaking off the blood". In the Japanese martial art of iaidō, this is done before nōtō or placing the blade back into the scabbard (known as saya). [2]

  5. Artistic symbol - Wikipedia

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    In works of art, literature, and narrative, a symbol is a concrete element like an object, character, image, situation, or action that suggests or hints at abstract, deeper, or non-literal meanings or ideas. [1] [2] The use of symbols artistically is symbolism. In literature, such as novels, plays, and poems, symbolism goes beyond just the ...

  6. Grove Art Online - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary is still available in a standard hardcover edition, though the leather-bound version appears to be out of print. Various smaller specialized redactions have been published, such as The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, (Editor, Gordon Campbell, OUP 2006, ISBN 0195189485), The Grove Dictionary of Materials and Techniques in Art (OUP 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-531391-8), From David ...

  7. Blood on the Floor (painting) - Wikipedia

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    Blood on the Floor (Painting, 1986) [1] is a 1986 oil-on-canvas panel painting by the British artist Francis Bacon. The panel shows a violent splash of blood, formed from drips of paint, on a bare canvas-coloured floor, which may be a wooden plank or diving board, against a harsh, flat, orange background. [ 2 ]

  8. Lexicon Technicum - Wikipedia

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    Lexicon Technicum: or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves was in many respects the first alphabetical encyclopedia written in English, compiled by John Harris, with the first volume published in 1704 and the second in 1710. [1]

  9. British Encyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences

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    Title page of The British Encyclopedia, 1809, vol. 4. The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, claimed by its publishers to be a work "Comprising an accurate and popular view of the present improved state of human knowledge", was published at London in 1809 in six octavo volumes and around 150 plates.