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  2. Scroll (art) - Wikipedia

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    Applications of single scroll forms can be seen in the volutes at the head of an Ionic column, the carved scroll at the end of the pegbox on instruments in the violin family (resembling fiddleheads in nature), and the heads of many Western crosiers. Scrollwork is a technique used in cake decorating. "Albeit a bit baroque, scrollwork lends a ...

  3. Icon of Mani - Wikipedia

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    Black and white photos published on "Guo Hua" Details of the main image: the jewel ring worn on the chest, the black square pattern on the white robe Lianhuatai details: the performance of the mani Lotte, it can be seen that his costume also has the style of Western Regions

  4. Western American Art - Wikipedia

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    During his cowboy career, he was actually not treated as a qualified cowboy but a storyteller and artist who expressed himself through the art and literary poesy. Even after Russell achieved recognition and acclaim, he remained the old traditions of the Old West and was devoted to the West before the white civilisation was imposed upon it.

  5. Handscroll - Wikipedia

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    A handscroll has a backing of protective and decorative silk (包首) usually bearing a small title label (題簽) on it. [6]In Chinese art, the handscroll usually consists of a frontispiece (引首) at the beginning (right side), the artwork (畫心) itself in the middle, and a colophon section (拖尾) at the end for various inscriptions.

  6. Western canon - Wikipedia

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    The Great Books of the Western World in 60 volumes. A university or college Great Books Program is a program inspired by the Great Books movement begun in the United States in the 1920s by John Erskine of Columbia University, which proposed to improve the higher education system by returning it to the western liberal arts tradition of broad cross-disciplinary learning.

  7. 20th-century Western painting - Wikipedia

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    In its final form, Guernica is an immense black and white, 3.5 metre (11 ft) tall and 7.8 metre (23 ft) wide mural painted in oil. The mural presents a scene of death, violence, brutality, suffering, and helplessness without portraying their immediate causes.

  8. Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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    The Island of Marajó, at the mouth of the Amazon River was a major center of ceramic traditions as early as 1000 CE [45] and continues to produce ceramics today, characterized by cream-colored bases painted with linear, geometric designs of red, black, and white slips.

  9. Western comics - Wikipedia

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    Later, Tumlinson drew Western stories for Atlas Comics' Outlaw Fighters, Two-Gun Western, and Wild Western. Russ Heath drew a corral-full of Western stories for such Marvel titles as Wild Western, All Western Winners, Arizona Kid, Black Rider, Western Outlaws, and Reno Browne, Hollywood's Greatest Cowgirl.