curvilinear

Examples of curvilinear in the following topics:

• Cylinders and Quadric Surfaces

  • A cylinder (from Greek "roller" or "tumbler") is one of the most basic curvilinear geometric shapes.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Symbolism

  • The work of some symbolist visual artists, such as Jan Toorop, directly affected the curvilinear forms of art nouveau.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• Linear Perspective

  • Four-point perspective, also called infinite-point perspective, is the curvilinear variant of two-point perspective.

• Teotihuacan

  • The flat, angular, abstract style, typical of Teotihuacan art, is in marked contrast to the curvilinear style of Olmec art.