Romanesque Sculpture: Characteristics, Themes, and Iconography
Romanesque Sculpture: Main Features
Romanesque sculpture was influenced by pre-Romanesque tests and sculptures from the East. During the Romanesque period, large-scale sculpture was not common, as the ancient sculptural tradition had been largely forgotten. Artists favored smaller dimensions, such as those found in ivory works.
Romanesque sculptors were more interested in the intellectual aspect and the message of their work than in naturalism. Figures are typically simple, with very flat relief,
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Impressionism: A 19th Century Artistic Revolution
In the 19th century, there was a radical change in art. It went from the artist who followed the rules (the Academy) to the one that broke them. The artists who transformed art were the rejected ones of the official Salons.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
His paintings were rejected from the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1855. He decided to open a “Pavillon du Realisme” to show his works. His style represents reality but without the romantic emotion
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Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849, Realism
The Stone Breakers highlights the mindless, repetitive nature of physical labor without any idealization.
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson, Realism
What beliefs of this artist are reflected in the painting? A Black man with a banjo was used as a stereotype in American culture.
Hokusai, Great Wave of Kanagawa, from 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Japan
Woodcut printing; Ukiyo-e. What style of painting influenced this? Edo Period of Japanese prints.
Claude
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The Signage and its Functions
Signage guides individuals in their itineraries and offers services. Signage is a part of social communication science that is responsible for studying information visually through guidance signs in relation to space. It studies the functionality of these indicators and the behavior of individuals. It constitutes an instantaneous visual language, automatic and universal. Its goal is to meet the needs and guidance of individuals’ information.
Signage Design
In signage design,
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Noucentisme and Avant-Garde
In Spain, the group of Modernist writers is called Noucentisme or the Generation of ’98. Its components are characterized by their European orientation and by their conception of art as an activity separate from the social and political. During the early decades of the 20th century, various artistic movements emerged in Europe, called Avant-Garde, breaking radically with the themes and expressive techniques of Romanticism and Realism. The Noucentistes connected easily
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Catalan Romanesque Architecture
Sant Climent de Taüll, along with San Martin de Canigó, Sant Pere de Rodes, and San Vicente de Cardona, represents the best of Catalan Romanesque architecture. These three churches feature crypts, an element that coexists with an aisle in the case of Sant Pere de Rodes, marking the first aisle of the Romanesque Peninsula. They showcase strong, classical, massive barrel vaults overlapping and resting on a plinth. San Vicente de Cardona also revives early Christian
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