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  2. Henohenomoheji - Wikipedia

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    The outline of the face is made by the character ji, its two short strokes forming the ear or cheek. Henohenomoheji is often used to symbolize a nondescript or generic human face, such as the faces of kakashi ( scarecrows ) [ 1 ] and teru teru bōzu .

  3. Dove Real Beauty Sketches - Wikipedia

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    Zamora sketched each woman based only on her self-description. [5] The next day the same woman was described by a stranger whom they had met in the loft. [3] The two sketches were then shown to the subjects. [5] The whole thing was recorded and the results were turned into a six-minute film entitled Dove Real Beauty Sketches. A shorter three ...

  4. History of the nude in art - Wikipedia

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    In cave paintings—especially those developed in the French-Cantabrian and Levantine areas—hunting scenes are common, or scenes of rites and dances, where the human figure, reduced to schematic outlines, is sometimes represented highlighting the sexual organs—breasts in women and the phallus in men—probably associated with mating rites.

  5. 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.

  6. Portrait of a Lady (van der Weyden) - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of a Lady (or Portrait of a Woman) is a small oil-on-oak panel painting executed around 1460 by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. The composition is built from the geometric shapes that form the lines of the woman's veil, neckline, face, and arms, and by the fall of the light that illuminates her face and headdress. The ...

  7. Physical attractiveness - Wikipedia

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    An Italian study published in 2008 analyzed the positions of the 50 soft-tissue landmarks of the faces of 324 white Northern Italian adolescent boys and girls to compare the features of a group of 93 "beautiful" individuals selected by a commercial casting agency with those of a reference group with normal dentofacial dimensions and proportions.

  8. La Scapigliata - Wikipedia

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    The woman's eyes are half-closed and completely ignore the outside world and viewer, while her mouth is slightly shaped into an ambiguous smile, evocative of the Mona Lisa. [3] Other than her face that takes up most of the painting, the rest of the painting is barely even sketched in, with a primed, but unpainted, background. [4]

  9. Nude (art) - Wikipedia

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    A figure drawing is a study of the human form in its various shapes and body postures, with line, form, and composition as the primary objective, rather than the subject person. A life drawing is a work that has been drawn from an observation of a live model.