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  2. Figurative art - Wikipedia

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    The formal elements, those aesthetic effects created by design, upon which figurative art is dependent, include line, shape, color, light and dark, mass, volume, texture, and perspective, [2] although these elements of design could also play a role in creating other types of imagery—for instance abstract, or non-representational or non-objective two-dimensional artwork.

  3. Figure painting - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, Jacob Jordaens, 1633, 181 cm × 288 cm (71 in × 113 in), oil on canvas. A figure painting is a work of fine art in any of the painting media with the primary subject being the human figure, whether clothed or nude.

  4. History of painting - Wikipedia

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    African art, Jewish art, Islamic art, Indonesian art, Indian art, [3] Chinese art, and Japanese art [4] each had significant influence on Western art, and vice versa. [ 5 ] Initially serving utilitarian purpose, followed by imperial, private, civic, and religious patronage, Eastern and Western painting later found audiences in the aristocracy ...

  5. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist , groups of artists or art movement . Ancient Classical art

  6. History of art - Wikipedia

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    The Silk Road transmission of art, Scythian art, Greco-Buddhist art, Serindian art and more recently Persianate culture, are all part of this complicated history. Central Asia has always been a crossroads of cultural exchange, the hub of the so-called Silk Road – that complex system of trade routes stretching from China to the Mediterranean.

  7. History of aesthetics - Wikipedia

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    In Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's system of philosophy art is viewed as the first stage of the absolute spirit. (See also Werke, Bd. x., and Bosanquet's Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art.). In this stage the absolute is immediately present to sense-perception, an idea which shows the writer's complete rupture with Kant's doctrine ...

  8. New Figuration - Wikipedia

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    The post-war crisis of anthropocentrism and the related departure from traditional conceptions of figuration led temporarily to an emphasis on radical movements of non-figurative art such as neoconstructivism and geometric abstraction, which had no connection with the world of real phenomena and were assigned a purely artistic role.

  9. Artistic canons of body proportions - Wikipedia

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    Figurative artArt that depicts real object sources; Nudity – State of humans wearing no clothing Depictions of nudity – Visual representations of the nude human form; Nude (art) – Work of art that has as its primary subject the unclothed human body; Neoclassicism – Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome