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Techniques of casting bronze sculptures in the old Iraq | ||
| al-academy | ||
| Article 1, Volume 0, Issue 64, 2018, Pages 77-90 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Amjad Saeed Mustafa; Nizar Abdul Latif Ahmed | ||
| Abstract | ||
| It is no doubt that though the artistic creativity and the distinctive capabilities of the Sumerian sculpture in the field of engraving on stone, but he could not convey the real expression of his vision and his artistic ambition only through using materials that depend a technology considered as invented and unprecedented in sculpture, which later on became an important and supporting factor in achieving his aim and his aesthetic vision which he sought to reach sculpting works made of stone more serious and more actual. And through these works he expressed his creative artistic personality. He could employ this material, the bronze which is not free problems, to achieve what he could not achieve on stone before. Bronze ingot with its characteristics gave the Sumerian sculpture a wide space and full liberty that accord with his ambitions in accomplishing the best. The characteristics of this material motivated him to artistic works were subject to high technology of molding through which he could free himself from the barriers of stone characteristics. So he never hesitated in embodying sculpting works characterized with reality represented in, generally, freedom in moving the hands, the legs and the body | ||
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