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Cycladic

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Cycladic [sɪˈklædɪk]
adj
(Placename) of or relating to the Cyclades or their inhabitants


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Krater is a house on Antiparos, one of the smaller islands of the Cycladic archipelago.
Her references crackled and shifted as quickly as the periods represented by the mantel's objets--a chunk of Roman frieze, a porcelain Saint Sebastian, a bit of possibly Cycladic sculpture, an intense little Basquiat, and a figurine of a couple in love.
Odundo's techniques--coiling and burnishing rather than wheel-turning and glazing--place her in the tradition of potting in subSaharan Africa, yet her sources of inspiration range from Cycladic figurines to the work of Arp, Gaudier-Brzeska, and Brancusi.
 
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