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Title: Alexandra Nechita (born August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist.


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Alexandra Nechita (born August 27, 1985) is a
Romanian-born American cubist painter and
muralist.
  • She was born in Vaslui, three months after her
    father, Niki Nechita, escaped from Communist
    Romania. She and her mother, Viorica Nechita,
    waited two years to rejoin him in the United
    States. The family settled in California, where
    her father found work as a lab technician, and
    her mother as an office manager.

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Alexandra Nechita (1985 - )Romanian born, US
citizen"Mama's Lullaby" 28.5 x 22.5
inLithograph on paper
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  • At the age of two, she was working with pen and
    ink and by five was working with watercolors.
    Upon her seventh birthday, oil and acrylics were
    her tools. She had her first solo exhibition at
    the age of eight at the public library in
    Whittier, Los Angeles County.

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  • In November 1999, Alexandra was selected by the
    World Federation of United Nations Associations
    to lead a Global Arts Initiative involving more
    than 100 nations. In 2005, Alexandra Nechita
    unveiled her United Nations Peace Monument for
    Asia in Singapore. It is to be set up for display
    at the Catholic High School. She was also
    enlisted to make a series of paintings named
    "Winning Together" for the Special Olympics.

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  • She dedicated a theatre at the Lutheran High
    School of Orange County, which was her high
    school. It is known as the Nechita Center for the
    Arts, and has 740 seats.
  • She had a guest appearance as herself in the
    Touchstone Television sitcom Boy Meets World in
    the 1998 episode "Better Than The Average Cory".

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"The Intricacies of Self" 27½" x 16½"Artist
Proof Stone Lithograph
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"Peace Keepers"27½" x 20¾"Artist Proof Stone
Lithograph
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"EmbraceGrowing Up" 27" x 21"Artist Proof
Stone Litograph
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"Stubborn Mom"55" x 55" framed1996Stone
lithograph
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3-D WHO SCULPTURE
  • Requirements for 3-D object
  • Sketch checked off.
  • Form (3-D object) larger than 13" X 10" X 9"
  • Glazing
  • Painting
  • Creativity
  • Craftsmanship
  • related to the WHOBILATION ie for the Whos!!!

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  • maquettea small scale two-dimensional sketch or
    three-dimensional model or plan of a proposed
    work, such as a sculpture or architectural form
    used by architects and sculptors in designing
    large-scale works
  • Forman element of visual arts a
    three-dimensional object that has height, width
    and depth. Free forma shape or form having an
    asymmetrical or irregular contour, often with a
    curvilinear, flowing outline sometimes referred
    to as organic or biomorphic, but may also
    include angles

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  • Craftsmanship, discuss different sculptural
    techniques you useddifferent ways to create 3-D
    forms, such as cutting, folding, rolling,
    twisting, curling, scoring, bending attaching,
    joining, carving using additive and subtractive
    processes to create three dimensional works of
    art
  • Did you consider and plan for texturean element
    of visual arts portrays surface quality how
    something feels or appears to feel some drawing
    techniques to create texture and patterns are
    stippling, hatching, cross-hatching, scribbling,
    broken lines, repeating lines and shapes
  • types include
  • actual texturehow something actually feels when
    touched
  • visual texturehow something appears to feel
  • also called simulated texture or implied texture
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