The prehistoric engravings on ivory usually represent animals, often rendered in a masterly manner and combined to form scenes. Elephant tusks and hippopotamus teeth were carved from a very early period in ancient Egypt.
The recitativo secco ("unaccompanied recitative") was banished (except in Alceste); the recitativo accompagnato, arioso, aria, chorus, and pantomime were welded together with declamatory style and expressive orchestral writing to form scenes and groups of scenes as parts of a great work of architecture.
A long-form scene follows a protocol as elaborate as a recipe for beef Wellington.
Central Florida represents the immigration debate in its most vexing form: the scene is as old as America itself, yet should not still exist.
Living things as varied as white-tailed deer, turkey vultures, moths and plankton are rendered in different colors and densities to form the scene.
Together these two sculptures — the tree by Zoe Leonard, the horse by Maurizio Cattelan — form a scene that seems at once tragic and absurd, like a stage set for a play by Samuel Beckett.
Aleem Maqbool reports form the scene.
Fortunately, this ambiguity appears in the form of scene category co-occurrences which can be modeled a posteriori with a classifier.
From a distance, they form a scene, but close up, they are just paint chips.
Drinking vessels (stem cups and cups with handles), ewers, oval dishes, platters, and bowls are the dominant forms; hunting scenes, drinking scenes, and animals are represented in high relief.
