Engineering and the Artist's Eye: Painting and Graphic Arts
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Overview: Creativity and engineering frequently go hand in hand, but not always for aesthetic reasons. This paper provides details on artistically inspiring engineering achievements, from steam trains to skyscrapers, and on the unique relationship between artist and engineer. The emergence of industrialization and of engineering as a profession paralleled that of the emergence of the 'new' artist, no longer content to be tied to portraying their worthy sponsors or pandering to the market for religious, allegorical and bucolic subjects.
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Format: PDF | Size: 141KB | Date: Feb 2004 | Pages: 7
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