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Baked Polymer Clay 3D People Portraits
Learners discuss methods of building forms with clay (ball and variations, snake, flat sheets). They draw a stick figure of what their sculpture may look like, including correct figure proportion.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Critic: Up Against It by Robert Arneson
Resource about the sculpture Up Against It by Robert Arneson. Includes an image of the sculpture, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the sculpture and artist as well as a link to "Do More", a...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Sculpture Critic: Lola by Georgia Blizzard
Resource about the sculpture Lola by Georgia Blizzard. Includes an image of the sculpture, a suggested art activity in text and audio, links for more information about the sculpture and artist as well as a link to "Do More", a place to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Artists Behind the Polychrome Sculpture
As part of an extensive research effort by the J. Paul Getty Museum into the design and construction of the polychrome sculpture Saint Gines de la Jara, researchers made an important distinction in identifying not just the artist who...
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Khan Academy: Making a Spanish Polychrome Sculpture: Saint Gines De La Jara
This article focuses on conservators, scientists, and art historians at the J. Paul Getty Museum who undertook a multifaceted approach to investigate the design and construction process of the polychrome sculpture Saint Gines de la Jara...
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Khan Academy: Marble Sculpture Quiz
Test your knowledge of marble sculpture, past and present, as well as carving techniques in this seven-question quiz.
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Khan Academy: The Enduring Art of Marble Sculpture
In the 5th century B.C., Greek artists perfected an idealized version of the human form, representing figures with youthful, serene faces and toned bodies in elegant, balanced poses. Painters and sculptors of later centuries were greatly...
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Khan Academy: Marble Bust of an Old Man
The bust shows an old man, clean-shaven and with closely-cropped hair, indicated with rows of simple shallow gouges on the head. The details of his face are closely observed, especially his rather small eyes and the jowls and cheeks,...
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Khan Academy: Marble Statue of the Emperor Hadrian
The Roman emperor Hadrian is shown here in the himation (a Greek mantle). This unique and well known statue is made up of fragments found in 1861 in the ruins of a temple in the city of Cyrene, in northern Africa.
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Khan Academy: Bodhisattva Maitreya
This statue depicts the bodhisattva Maitreya. Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who postpone their own salvation in order to help all sentient beings. The bodhisattva is an ideal type, not a depiction of an historical person like the...
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Khan Academy: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
This is an image of the compassionate and merciful bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who are destined to become buddhas but postpone that final state in order to help humanity. The name Avalokiteshvara...
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Khan Academy: Railing Pillar With Female Figure Beneath a Tree
This stone sculpture depicts a female figure holding on to the branches of a tree. She stands in what is known as a triple bend position. Part of her arms and one leg have broken off. She has a pleasant expression on her face. She wears...
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Khan Academy: The Hindu Deity Vishnu in the Form of the Man Lion Narasimha
A certain evil demon could not be killed by man or beast, indoors or out, during the day or night. To defeat the demon, Vishnu took the form of a half man-half lion, hid in the pillar of a doorway, and attacked at dusk. Vishnu was...
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Khan Academy: Hindu Deity Shiva as Destroyer of the Three Cities of the Demons
This is an image of the Hindu god Shiva. The image appears in a complex narrative scene. Shiva is standing in the pose of an archer, having just released a single arrow that is destroying three cities occupied by demons. He is surrounded...
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Khan Academy: Hindu Deity Durga Victorious Over the Buffalo Demon
This is an image of the goddess Durga. She is shown in a triumphant pose as the slayer of the buffalo demon, Mahisha. Durga is a manifestation of the Goddess, who can also appear as the consort Parvati or as a destructive figure Kali....
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Khan Academy: Haniwa in the Form of a Warrior
This object is a haniwa (lit. "clay ring"), a type of funerary article made during the Kofun era (300-552). Many kinds of haniwa have been found, including both simple clay cylinders and more elaborate forms, such as human figures,...
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Khan Academy: Female Shinto Spirit
This figure represents a Shinto goddess; her name is not known. She is depicted as an aristocratic woman, dressed in a thick kimono-like garment. Shinto images like this one were not meant to be seen but were kept hidden in movable...
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Khan Academy: Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures From West Africa
Ife ( pronounced ee-feh) is today regarded as the spiritual heartland of the Yoruba people living in Nigeria, the Republic of Benin and their many descendants around the world. It is rightly regarded as the birthplace of some of the...
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Khan Academy: Hiram Powers, the Greek Slave
"The Greek Slave" secured Hiram Powers's reputation as an American sculptor of the highest rank and it remains one of the most important and enduring works of American sculpture. It even inspired a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning....
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Oronzio Maldarelli
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Oronzio Maldarelli is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture (he started working in abstract, but switched to figurative sculpture...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Louis Potter
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Louis Potter is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture. His most famous sculptures focused on Native Americans and Native American...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Hiram Powers
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Hiram Powers is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture, and most famously his portrait busts of idealized figures.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: Rhoda Sherbell
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Rhoda Sherbell is described here along with information on her contributions to art through her work with contemporary sculpture of figures.
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Smithsonian American Art Museum: William Wetmore Story
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William Wetmore Story is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture.