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  2. Kinetic art - Wikipedia

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    Naum Gabo, one of the two artists attributed to naming this style, wrote frequently about his work as examples of "kinetic rhythm". [5] He felt that his moving sculpture Kinetic Construction (also dubbed Standing Wave, 1919–20) [6] was the first of its kind in the 20th century. From the 1920s until the 1960s, the style of kinetic art was ...

  3. Gesture drawing - Wikipedia

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    The practice allows an artist to draw strenuous or spontaneous poses that cannot be held by the model long enough for an elaborate study and reinforces the importance of movement, action, and direction, which can be overlooked during a long drawing. Thus, an approach is encouraged which notes basic lines of rhythm within the figure.

  4. Texture (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    As such, materials such as canvas and watercolour paper are considerably rougher than, for example, photo-quality computer paper and may not be best suited to creating a flat, smooth texture. Photography, drawings and paintings use visual texture both to portray their own subject matter realistically and with interpretation.

  5. List of jazz contrafacts - Wikipedia

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    A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement.Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition.

  6. Art - Wikipedia

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    For example, music imitates with the media of rhythm and harmony, whereas dance imitates with rhythm alone, and poetry with language. The forms also differ in their object of imitation. Comedy, for instance, is a dramatic imitation of men worse than average; whereas tragedy imitates men slightly better than average.

  7. Motif (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    1 Some examples. 2 Gallery. 3 See also. 4 Notes. 5 Further reading. ... Visual motifs (essay) Theater of Drawing This page was last edited on 15 August 2024, at 20:05 ...

  8. Rhythm - Wikipedia

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    One difficulty in defining rhythm is the dependence of its perception on tempo, and, conversely, the dependence of tempo perception on rhythm. Furthermore, the rhythm–tempo interaction is context dependent, as explained by Andranik Tangian using an example of the leading rhythm of "Promenade" from Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition:([40 ...

  9. Girl Singing (Hals) - Wikipedia

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    Girl Singing Artist Frans Hals Year About 1628 Medium Oil on panel Subject Head and shoulders of a young woman singing from a book Dimensions Lozenge with sides of about 18.5 cm × 18.5 cm (7½ in × 7½ in) Location Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (on long-term loan) Owner The Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection Accession L2020.6.14 Girl Singing is a figurative painting by ...