Other designers searched for naturalistic shapes that were also fashion-fit.
The art originated in China, where, perhaps over 1,000 years ago, trees were cultivated in trays, wooden containers, and earthenware pots and trained in naturalistic shapes.
The president-elect was shown gems designed in naturalistic shapes -- some of whimsical fruits, some of chimerical sea creatures -- and briskly chose one to present to a person of a sometimes whimsical and chimerical nature, who had recently given birth to his son.
It is naturalistic in shape and just right for a grand garden.
Ulu Grosbard, a director whose affinity for naturalistic drama shaped critical successes like the original Broadway production of David Mamet's "American Buffalo" and the film version of John Gregory Dunne's novel "True Confessions," has died in Manhattan.
A naturalistic scale reigns: big shapes are nearby and small ones are faraway, though all mob the picture plane.
The Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Blair Kamin spoke glowingly of the pavilion upon its August 4, 2009, completion, describing it as "a virtuoso display of structure, space and light" with an "arresting combination of naturalistic forms and alien shapes, plus a dazzling video installation".
We present a novel interaction system, "Shape-It-Up", for creative expression of 3D shapes through the naturalistic integration of human hand gestures with a modeling scheme dubbed intelligent generalized cylinders (IGC).
The Favrile glass invented by Louis Comfort Tiffany, with its flowing shapes derived from naturalistic forms and its lustrous surface, was much admired and particularly influenced glassmakers in central Europe.
His movies are toned and shaped like meticulously naturalistic melodramas, but they're constructed with a twist: rather than evoking emotion through his characters' dramatic tribulations, he builds the film on a foundation of emotional substance that the action and the characters embody, as if sculpturally.
