Carving

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• Line
• Continuous mark from a point in space that
  creates contours, boundaries, forms and shapes
• One-Dimensional Measured by Length Can vary
  in Appearance Different Lengths, Widths,
  Textures, Directions, Degree of Curve
• Albrecht Durer The Four Horsemen

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Carving

• Subtractive carving or reduction of initial
  materials be it wood, stone or printmaking
  plates(wood, linoleum, metal plate)
• Michelangelo, Pieta 1499 AD

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Casting

• AdditiveCreating from clay armatures or
  frameworks to create molds to cast in bronze or
  plaster. The finished metal can be then welded
  together
• Modules basic unit of measure
• Canon systems of correct or ideal proportions
• Scale can be distorted for expressive effect.
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Foreshortening Perspective
The illusion of depth and three dimensional space
on a flat two dimensional plane. Representations
of a body part that seems farther away than
another, or a distortion. Andrea
Mantegna Lamentations Over TheDead Christ
1490
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Bas Relief
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Perspective Thomas Coles Course of Empire
1836
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View of Mount Fuji from Satta Point in the Suruga
Bay, woodcut by Hiroshige, published posthumously
1859.
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Hiroshige
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David Oath of the Horatii 1784
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Thomas Coles Course of Empire 1836
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Thomas Coles The Oxbow