curvilinear
(adjective)
Having bends; curved; formed by curved lines.
Examples of curvilinear in the following topics:
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Architecture of Hindu Temples
- In the northern Nagara style, the shikhara takes the shape of a curvilinear beehive.
- The 11th century Lingaraj Temple is a fine example of the north Indian Nagara style of temple architecture, marked by its curvilinear, beehive-shaped shikhara.
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Minoan Sculpture
- As with their painting, Minoan sculpture demonstrates stylistic conventions including curvilinear forms; active, energized scenes; and long-limbed humans with broad shoulders and narrow waists.
- The figures are made with curvilinear lines and the positioning of both figures adds a high degree of movement and action that was commonly found in Minoan art.
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American Art Deco Architecture
- The Art Deco style is often characterized by its use of rich colors, symmetry, bold geometric shapes, simple composition, rectilinear rather than curvilinear shapes, and lavish ornamentation.
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Symbolism
- The work of some symbolist visual artists, such as Jan Toorop, directly affected the curvilinear forms of art nouveau.
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Minoan Painting
- The Minoans had a distinct painting style with shapes formed by curvilinear lines that add a feeling of liveliness to the paintings.
- The fresco does not depict a naturalistic landscape, but instead depicts an essence of the land and nature, whose liveliness is enhanced through the colors and curvilinear lines.
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Tiwanaku and Wari
- Tiwanaku art consisted of legible, outlined figures depicted in curvilinear style with a naturalistic manner, while Wari art used the same symbols in a more abstract, rectilinear style with a militaristic manner.
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Anglo-Saxon and Irish Art
- La Tène is "a highly stylized curvilinear art based mainly on classical vegetable and foliage motifs such as leafy palmette forms, vines, tendrils, and lotus flowers together with spirals, S-scrolls, lyre, and trumpet shapes. " It remains uncertain whether some of the most notable objects found from the La Tène period were made in Ireland or elsewhere (as far away as Egypt in some cases).
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Linear Perspective
- Four-point perspective, also called infinite-point perspective, is the curvilinear variant of two-point perspective.
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Teotihuacan
- The flat, angular, abstract style, typical of Teotihuacan art, is in marked contrast to the curvilinear style of Olmec art.
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Linear Perspective and Three-Dimensional Space
- Four-point perspective is the curvilinear variant of two-point perspective.