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Canoe Project. Home | Public Art on Campus | University of Wisconsin–Madison. William Pye water sculpture. Springfield-Greene County Library -- Bittersweet. Story and Drawings by Jeff Jaynes Photography by Doug Sharp Carving wood in relief is only one kind of wood carving. Since it is not as difficult as figure carving, anyone can learn to do it. C. This photo shows the many types of tools that are used. Wood-- In any kind of wood carving use a hard wood. The size of the block depends on the carving you want to do. The wood needs no special treatment before beginning to carve. Chisels-- The basic wood carving tool is the chisel. Care of Chisels--No one can carve satisfactorily without good sharp cutting edges on the chisels. Showing the three basic tools used in wood carving: 1. gouge, 2. vaining, 3. sque. Side view of the strop.

Top view of the strop. Showing the way to transfer the pattern to the wood with carbon paper. This photo shows how to use the whet stone to sharpen the chisels. Using the strop to put the razor edge on the chisels. The mallet-- The next tool is the mallet. This is the way to use the oil stone to sharpen a chisel. History of Russian animation. The History of Russian animation is the film art produced by Russian animation makers. As most of Russia's production of animation for film|cinema and television were created during Soviet times, it may also be referred to some extent as the History of Soviet animation.

It remains a nearly unexplored field in film theory and history outside Russia. Beginnings[edit] Scene from Ladislas Starevich's The Cameraman's Revenge (1911) [1] Examples of early Soviet animation The first animator in Russia was Aleksander Shiryayev, who was a principal dancer at the Imperial Russian Ballet, as well as a teacher and choreographer. After Starevich's emigration following the October Revolution, animation in Russia came to a standstill for years. In doing so, these early pioneers could experiment with their equipment as well as with their aesthetics. Socialist Realism[edit] In 1934, Walt Disney sent a film reel with some shorts of Mickey Mouse to the Moscow Film Festival. Crystal and spore | project.

The Crystal and Spore collective reflects the relationship between synthetic and organic systems - that vital intersection between nature and culture where the future of the human landscape is continually being forged. Crystalline forms represent technology, manifest in the ubiquitous silicon chip that provides the digital means to create and receive information. The spore symbolizes the chaotically complex distribution systems of the natural world, through which living genetic information is dispersed.

Developed as a workshop in 2000, Crystal and Spore has been creating a flexible media vocabulary and mobile toolkit for delivering artistic, entertaining and educational messages. As an independent Canadian collective of emerging artists, Crystal and Spore pursues new creative activity by merging media with established art forms into a rich plurality of artistic and academic disciplines – aiming to transform multimedia into metamedia. Constructivism (art) Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, a rejection of the idea of autonomous art.

The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th century, influencing major trends such as the Bauhaus and De Stijl movements. Its influence was pervasive, with major impacts upon architecture, graphic and industrial design, theatre, film, dance, fashion and to some extent music. Photograph of the first Constructivist Exhibition, 1921. The term Construction Art was first used as a derisive term by Kazimir Malevich to describe the work of Alexander Rodchenko in 1917. [citation needed] Constructivism first appears as a positive term in Naum Gabo's Realistic Manifesto of 1920.

IZO, the Commissariat's artistic bureau, was managed during the Russian Civil War mainly by Futurists, who published the journal Art of the Commune. Agitprop poster by Mayakovsky. ARTMargins Online. ArtLex Art Dictionary. William Pye water sculpture. The HyperSphere. The mathematical objects that live on the sphere in four dimensional space -- the hypersphere -- are both beautiful and interesting. The four dimensional sphere is a unique object, with properties both similar to and surprisingly different from those of our ordinary sphere.

Similarly to the case in three dimensions, there is a family of Platonic and Archimedean solids that can be viewed on the four dimensional sphere. These shapes can be seen to have a structure that is comfortingly analogous to that of the Platonic solids we know and love. However, there are some properties of the four dimensional sphere that are startlingly different. In contrast to the ordinary sphere, it is possible to "comb the hair" on the four dimensional sphere. How do we view objects in four dimensions? First, what does it mean to look at an object that lives in four dimensional space?

So what are we looking at? Suppose a flatlander wished to view structures on a sphere from his comfortable planar home. Dogfeathers. Sacred Geometry. Introduction. In nature, we find patterns, designs and structures from the most minuscule particles, to expressions of life discernible by human eyes, to the greater cosmos. These inevitably follow geometrical archetypes, which reveal to us the nature of each form and its vibrational resonances. They are also symbolic of the underlying metaphysical principle of the inseparable relationship of the part to the whole. It is this principle of oneness underlying all geometry that permeates the architecture of all form in its myriad diversity.

This principle of interconnectedness, inseparability and union provides us with a continuous reminder of our relationship to the whole, a blueprint for the mind to the sacred foundation of all things created. The Sphere (charcoal sketch of a sphere by Nancy Bolton-Rawles) Starting with what may be the simplest and most perfect of forms, the sphere is an ultimate expression of unity, completeness, and integrity. The Circle The Point The Square Root of Two The Golden Ratio. Artists For A Better World. Duende (art) El duende is the spirit of evocation. It comes from inside as a physical/emotional response to art. It is what gives you chills, makes you smile or cry as a bodily reaction to an artistic performance that is particularly expressive.

Folk music in general, especially flamenco, tends to embody an authenticity that comes from a people whose culture is enriched by diaspora and hardship; vox populi, the human condition of joys and sorrows. Drawing on popular usage and Spanish folklore, Federico García Lorca first developed the aesthetics of Duende in a lecture he gave in Buenos Aires in 1933, "Juego y teoria del duende" ("Play and Theory of the Duende"). [2] According to Christopher Maurer, editor of "In Search of Duende", at least four elements can be isolated in Lorca's vision of duende: irrationality, earthiness, a heightened awareness of death, and a dash of the diabolical.

Lorca writes: "The duende, then, is a power, not a work. Filipino Folklore: Dwende Flamenco. List of Art Books Reviewed. What Origami Can Be!