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Cards (11)

  • Butter sculptures
    Sculpting medium traced back to "banquet art", a tradition most associated with the Renaissance and Baroque periods
  • Caroline S. Brooks
    • American sculptor who exhibited her butter sculptures in galleries and exhibitions by using ice to keep them from melting
    • Made her first butter sculpture in 1867 as a way to promote the product
    • Did not use moulds, utilised traditional tools including a butter paddle, broom straw, and a "camel's-hair pencil"
  • Erika Iris Simmons
    Imaginative painter and sculptor who focuses on recycling found materials and creating them into something unique and amusing
  • Dominique Blain's Missa
    100 pair of army boots suspended on nylon strings arranged in a square grid, with the right-foot boots suggesting the synchronised movement of military marching
  • Cave art in North America
    • Motifs depict human forms and animals, some of the largest known cave images
    • Dated to 133–433 AD
    • Revealed through photogrammetry, in which thousands of overlapping photographs are taken and digitally combined in 3D
  • Sulawesi cave art
    • Oldest painting in the world, a hand stencil dating to at least 37,900 BCE
    • Also contains a fragmented painting of a pig-deer or babirusa, the second oldest figurative painting ever found and the oldest Asian art of the Paleolithic
  • Charles Darwin's finches
    Birds Darwin collected on the Galapagos Islands that were instrumental in the formation of his theory of evolution and ideas on natural selection
  • Lascaux cave paintings
    • Discovered by four teenagers in 1940, one of the world's best examples of prehistoric art
    • The French government has built an exact replica of the paintings next to the originals, which are closed to the public to protect the artwork
  • Eiffel Tower replicas
    Mini or baby versions of the iconic Paris landmark, found in various cities around the world
  • Virtual Pompeii
    • Digital re-creation of a house in ancient Pompeii, used as an educational tool in history classes at Gonzaga University
  • Amedeo Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor of the École de Paris who worked mainly in France, known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures