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  2. Border art - Wikipedia

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    Border Art is a contemporary art practice rooted in the socio-political experience(s), such as of those on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, or frontera.Since its conception in the mid-80's, this artistic practice has assisted in the development of questions surrounding homeland, borders, surveillance, identity, race, ethnicity, and national origin(s).

  3. Border - Wikipedia

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    Border art is a contemporary art practice rooted in the socio-political experience(s), such as of those on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, or frontera. Since its conception in the mid-1980s, this artistic practice has assisted in the development of questions surrounding homeland , borders, surveillance , identity, race , ethnicity , and national ...

  4. Mosaics of Delos - Wikipedia

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    The composition of the Delos mosaics and pavements include simple pebble constructions, chip-pavement made of white marble, ceramic fragments, and pieces of tesserae. [2] [6] [13] The latter falls into two categories: the simpler, tessellated opus tessellatum using large pieces of tesserae, on average eight by eight millimeters, [14] and the finer opus vermiculatum using pieces of tesserae ...

  5. Meander (art) - Wikipedia

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    The meander is a fundamental design motif in regions far from a Hellenic orbit: labyrinthine meanders ("thunder" pattern [3]) appear in bands and as infill on Shang bronzes (c. 1600 BC – c. 1045 BC), and many traditional buildings in and around China still bear geometric designs almost identical to meanders.

  6. List of public art in the Scottish Borders - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of public art in Scottish Borders, one of the 32 local government council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh , Dumfries and Galloway , East Lothian , Midlothian , South Lanarkshire , West Lothian and, to the south, the English counties of Cumbria and Northumberland .

  7. Landscape design - Wikipedia

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    Autumn colours at Stourhead gardens. The landscape design phase consists of research, gathering ideas, and setting a plan. Design factors include objective qualities such as: climate and microclimates; topography and orientation, site drainage and groundwater recharge; municipal and resource building codes; soils and irrigation; human and vehicular access and circulation; recreational ...

  8. Landscape painting - Wikipedia

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    Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...

  9. Crop art - Wikipedia

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    Crop art is an environmental art practice using plants and seeds in the landscape to create statements, marks and/or images. Agnes Denes , Matthew Moore (artist), Dennis Oppenheim and Stan Herd are practitioners of Crop art.