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  2. Portraiture in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Nefertiti bust, from the 18th dynasty, New kingdom Egyptian death mask from the 18th dynasty. Louvre, Paris portrait of Meritamun, 19th dynasty of Egypt. Portraiture in ancient Egypt forms a conceptual attempt to portray "the subject from its own perspective rather than the viewpoint of the artist ... to communicate essential information about the object itself". [1]

  3. Mie (pose) - Wikipedia

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    Another pose taken by Benkei in this play is the so-called "rock-throwing pose" (石投げの見得, Ishinage no mie), which is meant to look like its namesake. The term tenchi no mie ( 天地の見得 ), or "heaven and earth pose," is used when two actors, one low on the stage and one high above, on a rooftop or other set-piece, strike a pose ...

  4. Kabru - Wikipedia

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    Mt. Kabru at sunrise, Sikkim (2013). The 7338 m summit of Kabru is the site of a mountaineering altitude record, either in 1883 or in 1905.The English barrister William Graham, the Swiss hotelier Emil Boss and the Swiss mountain guide Ulrich Kaufmann reported to have reached a point 30-40 feet below this summit, which Graham described as "little more than a pillar of ice", at 2pm on October 8 ...

  5. Gesture drawing - Wikipedia

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    Typical situations involve an artist drawing a series of poses taken by a model in a short amount of time, often as little as 10 seconds, or as long as 5 minutes. Gesture drawing is often performed as a warm-up for a life drawing session, but is a skill that may be cultivated for its own sake.

  6. Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky) - Wikipedia

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    The nymphs all begin to move. The tableau on the stage consists of a group of three, a group of two, and a single nymph who either dances with the pair to balance the scene or strikes poses at variance to the pair. [9] The faun remains motionless as the first six nymphs enter, but then he follows the progress of the last nymph with his eyes.

  7. Traditional animation - Wikipedia

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    Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand. The technique was the dominant form of animation of the 20th century, until there was a shift to computer animation in the industry, such as digital ink and paint and 3D computer animation .

  8. Depictions of nudity - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, in Titanic (1997) Rose Dewitt Bukater (played by Kate Winslet) poses nude for Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio). [70] Nudity may also be portrayed in routine and non-sexual contexts. For instance, in Starship Troopers (1997), a mixed-shower scene is intended to demonstrate gender equality in the future. [71] [72]

  9. List of mudras (dance) - Wikipedia

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    In Bharatanatyam, the classical dance of India performed by Lord Nataraja, approximately 48 root mudras (hand or finger gestures) are used to clearly communicate specific ideas, events, actions, or creatures in which 28 require only one hand, and are classified as `Asamyuta Hasta', along with 23 other primary mudras which require both hands and are classified as 'Samyuta Hasta'; these 51 are ...