S-curve (art), the Glossary
In the visual arts, an S-curve is an S-shaped curve that serves a wide variety of compositional purposes.[1]
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21 relations: Abduction of a Sabine Woman, Ancient Greek sculpture, Center of mass, Composition (visual arts), Contrapposto, Curve, Donatello, Figura serpentinata, Gothic art, Krishna, Landscape painting, Loggia dei Lanzi, Odisha, Praxiteles, Roman sculpture, Roy C. Craven, S, Saint Barbara (The Cloisters), Standing, Tribhanga, Visual arts.
- Ancient Greek art
- Composition in visual art
- History of sculpture
Abduction of a Sabine Woman
Abduction of a Sabine Woman (or The Rape of the Sabine) is a large and complex marble statue by the Flemish sculptor and architect Giambologna (Johannes of Boulogne).
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Ancient Greek sculpture
The sculpture of ancient Greece is the main surviving type of fine ancient Greek art as, with the exception of painted ancient Greek pottery, almost no ancient Greek painting survives. S-curve (art) and ancient Greek sculpture are History of sculpture.
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Center of mass
In physics, the center of mass of a distribution of mass in space (sometimes referred to as the barycenter or balance point) is the unique point at any given time where the weighted relative position of the distributed mass sums to zero.
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Composition (visual arts)
The term composition means "putting together". S-curve (art) and composition (visual arts) are composition in visual art.
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Contrapposto
Contrapposto is an Italian term that means "counterpoise". S-curve (art) and Contrapposto are art history, composition in visual art, History of sculpture and Human positions.
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Curve
In mathematics, a curve (also called a curved line in older texts) is an object similar to a line, but that does not have to be straight.
Donatello
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (– 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello, was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period.
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Figura serpentinata
Figura serpentinata is a style in painting and sculpture, intended to make the figure seem more dynamic, that is typical of Mannerism. S-curve (art) and figura serpentinata are art history, composition in visual art and History of sculpture.
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Gothic art
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.
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Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
Landscape painting
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition.
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Loggia dei Lanzi
The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery.
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Odisha
Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.
Praxiteles
Praxiteles (Πραξιτέλης) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attica sculptors of the 4th century BC.
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Roman sculpture
The study of Roman sculpture is complicated by its relation to Greek sculpture.
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Roy C. Craven
Roy C. Craven (Roy Curtis Craven, Jr.) was (born in Cherokee Bluffs, Alabama on July 29, 1924. - May 30, 1996) He was the founding director of the University Gallery at the University of Florida.
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S
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
Saint Barbara (The Cloisters)
Saint Barbara is a sculpture statuette in limewood with paint, completed by an unknown, probably German, artist in Strasbourg, Alsace, in present-day France, around 1490.
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Standing
Standing, also referred to as orthostasis, is a position in which the body is held in an upright (orthostatic) position and supported only by the feet. S-curve (art) and Standing are Human positions.
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Tribhanga
Tribhaṅga or Tribunga is a standing body position or stance used in traditional Indian art and Indian classical dance forms like the Odissi, where the body bends in one direction at the knees, the other direction at the hips and then the other again at the shoulders and neck.
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Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, comics, design, crafts, and architecture.
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See also
Ancient Greek art
- Ancient Greek art
- Ancient Greek crafts
- Ancient furniture
- Apobates Base
- Attic ochre
- Chicago Painter
- Death in ancient Greek art
- Gods in Color
- Halo (religious iconography)
- Hellenistic influence on Indian art
- Herakleia head
- IvO 240/241
- Jardin des Vestiges
- Lion head horn
- Omphalos of Delphi
- Phyle Cave
- S-curve (art)
- Sphinx
- Sphinxes
- Vari Cave
- Villa Giulia Painter
- Warfare in ancient Greek art
Composition in visual art
- Aerial perspective
- Anamorphosis
- Attitude (art)
- Chiaroscuro
- Collage
- Complementary colors
- Composition (visual arts)
- Contrapposto
- Cropping (image)
- Effets de soir
- Figura serpentinata
- Formal balance
- Framing (visual arts)
- Free-form select
- Golden ratio
- Headroom (photographic framing)
- Illusionistic ceiling painting
- Lead room
- Ma (negative space)
- Macaroni art
- Mise en abyme
- Negative space
- Open form
- Page layout
- Perspective (graphical)
- Perspective control
- Perspectivity
- Photographic composition
- Plastic ratio
- Quadro riportato
- Rückenfigur
- Rabatment of the rectangle
- Repoussoir
- Rule of thirds
- S-curve (art)
- Silhouette
- Silhouettes
- Staffage
- Step and repeat
- Trompe-l'œil
History of sculpture
- Allegorical sculpture
- Ancient Greek sculpture
- Ancient Roman sculpture
- Architectural sculpture
- Armenian medieval sculpture
- Atlantean figures
- Blackamoor (decorative arts)
- Borghese Vase
- Cadaver monument
- Capoulet-et-Junac War Memorial
- Contrapposto
- Figura serpentinata
- Fonderie Nationale des Bronzes
- Giants of Mont'e Prama
- Gilded woodcarving in Portugal
- Iberian sculpture
- International Sculpture Symposium
- Italian Renaissance sculpture
- Maya stelae
- Medici Vase
- Modular constructivism
- Monumental propaganda
- Potbelly sculpture
- Quadriga
- Rupert Gunnis
- S-curve (art)
- Timiryazev monument
- Tutela de Vieux-la-Romaine
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-curve_(art)
Also known as S Curve (art).