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2. Islamic ornament - Wikipedia

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   In his book,The Meditation on Ornament, Oleg Grabar departs from Gombrich's European-influenced position to show how ornament can be the subject of a design. He differentiates between filling a space with design, and transforming a space through design. Iran, Kharraqan, mausoleum, 1087, back. Grabar calls attention to the "iconophoric quality ...

3. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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   Architectural ornament can be carved from stone, wood or precious metals, formed with plaster or clay, or painted or impressed onto a surface as applied ornament; in other applied arts the main material of the object, or a different one such as paint or vitreous enamel may be used.

4. Wikipedia:Scanning an image does not make it your "own work"

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5. Islamic geometric patterns - Wikipedia

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   Tomb towers of two Seljuk princes at Kharaghan, Qazvin province, Iran, covered with many different brick patterns like those that inspired Ahmad Rafsanjani to create auxetic materials. Computer graphics and computer-aided manufacturing make it possible to design and produce Islamic geometric patterns effectively and economically.

6. Viking art - Wikipedia

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   Gold jewellery from the 10th century Hiddensee treasure, mixing Norse pagan and Christian symbols. Pair of "tortoise brooches," which were worn by married Viking women. Viking art, also known commonly as Norse art, is a term widely accepted for the art of Scandinavian Norsemen and Viking settlements further afield—particularly in the British Isles and Iceland—during the Viking Age of the ...

7. Plastic flamingo - Wikipedia

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   The American artist Don Featherstone designed the pink lawn flamingo in 1957, naming the first Diego. His lawn flamingo, mass-produced by his employer, Union Products, of Leominster, Massachusetts, has since become an icon of pop culture [1] that won him the Ig Nobel Prize for Art in 1996.