Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Degrees of Dimensionality

Alter ego is a second self, a second personality or persona within a person.


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Abstract
is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way.


"FLYING DRAGON" Jim Willis








"ABSTRACT SCULPTURE" by Alex Mauldin




"ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE" by Stephen Kishel





Non-representational
is relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature.





"REFLECTIONS" by Jonathan Clowes




"154 SCULPTURE" by Rebecca Fox









piece by paul rand




Anthropomorphic abstraction
suggests human characteristics for animals or inanimate things.



"CHILDREN OF THE SUN" by Hannu A. Leimu







."ORACLE XI" by Lyle London











"YOUNG FAMILy" by Patricia Paccinini








Geometric abstraction
is a form of abstract art based on the use of simple geometric forms placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective compositions.




"GRAVITATION" by Lucien den Arend









"ZIGGARAT AND W AND WWW" by Forest Myers









"HYPER-CUBE" by Peter Forakis



Mask
is a covering worn on the face to conceal one's identity.


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untitled by Christina Salinas
















"BEAUTY MASH" by Chidi Okoye





Low relief
is a sculptural relief that projects very little from the background.




"DANCER" by Peter Rubino







"LOW RELIEF PLAQUE" by Louisa Kennedy




"BORN BABIES: GROWN WOMEN" by Chidi Okoye




High relief is a relief in which sculptured figures, etc. project from the background by half or more than half their full natural depth.



"AMINA" by Chidi Okoye








"THE HORSES OF ANAHITA" by William Morris Hunt











"TOUCH OF BEAUTY" by Chidi Okoye



In-the-round
is fully shaped so as to stand free of a background.





MALE LYRE PLAYER" from ancient Kuros







"ABSTRACT FIGURE" by Oskar Schlemmer









."LAOCOON AND HIS SONS" from ancient Greece

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