Category: + Sculptures
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Tribute to the Thumb
Tribute to the Thumb: The ability to pinch with the thumb and fingers, enabling fine motor skills, is essential for tool making and is one of the keys to human evolution (along with upright posture and increased brain capacity).This skill, known as the pincer grasp, involves using the tips of the thumb and index finger…
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Theia: the creation of the moon
About 4.5 billion years ago, Theia orbited the Sun almost exactly the same as the proto-Earth’s orbit, hovering near one or the other of the two most stable Lagrangian points in the Sun-Earth system (i.e., L4 or L5). Theia was eventually perturbed out of this relationship by the gravitational influence of Jupiter, Venus, or both,…
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Brief chronology of Sculpture:
(1) Attached or relief sculpture. (1.1) Bas-relief sculpture is believed to be the oldest sculptural manifestation since prehistoric cave art. (1.2) The relief sculpture is attached to the surface but has a protruding part creating a sense of 3D.(2) Freestanding or round sculptures are later; now the work can be examined from all angles. Another,…