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September 5th, 2024075 The paintings above were created by Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr., an American painter, sculptor, and photographer. He is one of the most expensive modern artists, with paintings selling for anywhere between $2 million (~RM8 million) to $75 million (~RM325 million). Many people wonder why he is so popular. He creates artworks that...
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June 21st, 20240122 By Moses Khor, Lecturer of School of Applied Creative Arts and Design. Fine art is a type of visual art that is done primarily for aesthetic, intellectual, or emotional reasons, rather than utilitarian or commercial ones.  The word "fine art" first appeared in the 17th century, when artists and thinkers strove to separate...
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March 29th, 20240189 Superheroes are fictional characters who have incredible skills or powers that they employ to protect the innocent, combat evil, and uphold peace and justice in their respective fictitious universes. They frequently appear in comic books, films, television shows, and other forms of popular culture. Research found that superheroes have...
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January 31st, 20230427   Tessellations can be defined as repetitive designs in which positive and negative shapes are of equal importance and consume the entire surface of artwork. The objects in a tessellation share edges with other objects in the pattern. The word tessellation means to fit or join polygons (an enclosed plane, like a square or...
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November 30th, 20220364 The wordless novel is a unique type of narrative that uses sequences of caption-less pictures (no words) to tell a story. Artists have often made such books using woodcut and other relief printing techniques, the terms ‘woodcut novel’ or novel in woodcuts are also used. The wordless novel has its origin in the German...
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October 28th, 20220482 The storyboard is a key tool of visual communication and is used in many contexts to ‘pre-visualise’ projects, such as animation, motion graphics, film, interactive media, websites (such as sitemaps and navigation links), advertising agencies to plan campaigns, product design, theatrical productions and business (group...
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September 19th, 20220509   When we refer to ‘tonal values’ in drawing, it is the same as the common term of ‘shading’. Shading is the part that makes a drawing go from a flat contour drawing, and gives it depth, so it appears as a 3-dimensional illusion.  Look at objects in your home, like lamps, bottles, containers, etc – everything is...
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August 30th, 20220511 In 1968, I was a student at Chicago’s American Academy of Art, when I discovered the art medium of scratchboard. One day, our teacher in the design class told us to go to the school store and buy a piece of scratchboard, plus a blade to scratch with. I was given a black, inked board, and following a brief demonstration, I started...
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July 25th, 20220697 When we were in primary school, making art was an important part of the day in the classroom. Some of the main drawing exercises usually were created with our box of crayons - drawing scenes from our imagination on rough construction paper. Afterwards, the teacher might display the drawings on the classroom board, and we’d get a chance...
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