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Animated Robotic Sculptures: Using SMA Motion Display to Create Lifelike Movements

Leonardo, 2020
This paper describes four animated robotic sculptures that are characterized by their use of shape-memory alloy motion display technologies to express lifelike movements, such as rustling leaves or squirming tentacles. These works of art combine plant and animal motifs with robotics to give their audience a sense of the objects being alive through ...
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Animated Sculptures: Figuration and Movement

Leonardo, 1982
If one takes the term 'Kinetic Art' in its broadest sense, my artwork can be described as part of the Kinetic Art movement, which implies the use of motion in visual art. In France, where I live, following the vogue of the 1960s, the definition of Kinetic Art came to embrace the idea of abstraction, geometricality and technology, associated with the ...
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Germanic Animal Motifs in Romanesque Sculpture

Artibus et Historiae, 1990
The chalice-shaped font in St. Cassian's church at Chaddesley Corbett, Worcestershire, serves as the departure point for a discussion of the sources of certain unusual features in Romanesque sculptural ornamentation. On this font, a work of the Herefordshire School from the second quarter of the twelfth century, the heads of the monsters have Italian ...
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Cave To Cosmos: Mythological Animals In The Sculpture Of Anish Kapoor

Green Letters, 2021
This paper reflects on the sculpture of Anish Kapoor from an ecocritical perspective, focusing on the significance of non-human animals to his work.
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Oriental Influences in the Animal Sculpture of Campania

The Art Bulletin, 1942
Since Bertaux1 various scholars have investigated the influence of the Orient on single monuments of medieval Campanian sculpture. We are indebted to Monneret de Villard2 for an excellent article on the reliefs of S. Aspreno in Naples, and to Maria Teresa Tozzi for her study of the decoration of the old Cathedral of Sorrento.3 It is still worth while ...
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Animated Sculptures of the Crucified Christ: Origins, Development and Impact

Material Religion, 2018
Animated sculptures of the crucified Christ represent an extremely broad and methodologically intriguing challenge for scholars. Their unusual construction (e.g.
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More Than a Portrait: Framing the Photograph as Sculpture and Video Animation

Membrana Journal of Photography, 2018
This essay traces the resurrection of the fotoescultura, a three-dimensional photographic portrait popular in rural Mexico in the early 20th century, as interpreted in recent works by Performing Pictures, a contemporary Swedish artist duo. The early fotoesculturas were an augmented form of portraiture, commissioned by family members who supplied ...
Karin Becker, Geska Helena Brečević
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Greek Art and Persian Taste: Some Animal Sculptures from Persepolis

American Journal of Archaeology, 1986
The military and political interaction between ancient Greece and Persia was accompanied by artistic exchanges that are only now being unraveled. In addition to the Greek architects and artisans recorded at Susa, Persepolis and Pasargadae, we now know that Greek, or Greek-trained, sculptors worked at Persepolis.
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Animal Representations in Kuba Art: An Anthropological Interpretation of Sculpture

Oxford Art Journal, 1981
During the First World War, Paul Nash was commissioned by the Ministry of Information to make a visual record of events taking place on the battlefields of Europe. He reportedly remarked of the experience that he no longer considered himself wholly an artist but had become in some senses a 'messenger'. Nash, of course, was in part referring to his role
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Animal sculpture from scrap metal: value creation to waste materials

Asian Creative Architecture, Art and Design
This paper presents a creative study utilizing Clive Bell's theory of Significant Form and concepts from artists who use scrap metal to create art. It outlines the design and implementation process in detail, aiming to craft animal-shaped sculptures from scrap metal that are both beautiful and uniquely distinctive.
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