The Many Construction Materials of Fountains
The Many Construction Materials of Fountains
Garden fountains nowadays are commonly made from metal, although you can find them in other materials too. Metals tend to create clean lines and unique sculptural accents and can fit almost any design preference or budget. It is essential that your landscape design reflects the style of your residence. Today, a lot of people elect copper for their sculptural garden fountains. Copper is used in cascade and tabletop water fountains as well as various other styles, making it versatile enough for inside and outside fountains. Copper is also versatile enough that you can pick a range of styles for your fountain, from contemporary to whimsical.
If your style is more old-fashioned, a brass water fountain might be ideal for you. Although it is not the most modern, the creatures and sculptural features you find on fountains are mostly made of brass, thus making them very popular.
The most modern metal right now is perhaps stainless steel. For an immediate increase in the value and peacefulness of your garden, get one of the contemporary steel designs. As with all fountains, you can find any size you need.
Fiberglass is a widely used material for fountains because you can get the look and feel of metal at a much lower price, and it is lighter and easier to move than metal. It is simple to clean and maintain a fiberglass water fountain, yet another reason they are trendy.
Archaic Greek Artistry: Large Statuary
Archaic Greek Artistry: Large Statuary The Archaic Greeks built the very first freestanding statuary, an amazing achievement as most sculptures up until then had been reliefs cut into walls and pillars. Kouros figures, statues of adolescent, good-looking male or female (kore) Greeks, made up the majority of the statues. The kouroi were believed by the Greeks to embody beauty and were sculpted with one foot leading and an uncompromising rigidity to their forward-facing poses; the male statues were always strapping, sinewy, and undressing.
Life-sized versions of the kouroi appeared beginning in 650 BC. During the Archaic time, a great time of change, the Greeks were developing new forms of government, expressions of art, and a larger awareness of people and cultures outside Greece. But these disputes did not prevent the expansion of the Greek civilization. {