Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath.

Gumby was created by Art Clokey in the early 1950s after finishing film school at University of Southern California.

Clokey and his wife, Ruth ( née Parkander ), invented Gumby in the early 1950s at their Covina home shortly after Art finished film school at USC.

On October 12, 2011, Google paid tribute to Art Clokey ’ s 90th birthday featuring clay balls transforming into characters from Gumby.

*' Gumby ' creator Art Clokey dies

* Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby, has claimed that The Katzenjammer Kids inspired the creation of Gumby's nemeses, The Block-heads.

Arthur " Art " Clokey ( October 12, 1921 – January 8, 2010 ) was an American pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.

After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up with the clay character Gumby.

Gumbasia, The very first stop motion clay animation movie by Art Clokey

In the mid-1990s, Nickelodeon signed a contract with Art Clokey to air every episode of Gumby for its anchor spots at 8 a. m. and 2 p. m.

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Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

Art historians and theorists such as Cesare Brandi have also played a significant role in developing conservation-restoration theory.

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

The English word " amputation " was first applied to surgery in the 17th century, possibly first in Peter Lowe's A discourse of the Whole Art of Chirurgerie ( published in either 1597 or 1612 ); his work was derived from 16th century French texts and early English writers also used the words " extirpation " ( 16th century French texts tended to use extirper ), " disarticulation ", and " dismemberment " ( from the Old French desmembrer and a more common term before the 17th century for limb loss or removal ), or simply " cutting ", but by the end of the 17th century " amputation " had come to dominate as the accepted medical term.

The river is also straddled by the New York Botanical Gardens, its neighbor, the Bronx Zoo, and a little further south, on the west shore, Bronx River Art Center.

There is also a collection of her fungi paintings at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Perth, Scotland donated by Charles McIntosh.

In 1900 the city's College of Art was also opened on Moseley Road.

Retrospectives of his work were presented that year at The National Film Theatre in London, the Munich Stadtmuseum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which also dedicated a gallery exhibition, Chaplin: A Centennial Celebration, to him.

In 1890 she exhibited at the Paris Exposition, obtained in 1893 the gold medal of the Philadelphia Art Club, and also the Dodge prize at the New York National Academy of Design.

There are also preliminary plans to erect a 1: 1-scale replica of Wacław Szymanowski's Art Nouveau statue of Frederic Chopin found in Warsaw's Royal Baths along Chicago's lakefront in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in Chopin Park for the 200th anniversary of Frederic Chopin's birth.

He was a member of the Arista-National Honor Society and also studied drawing and anatomy at the Saturday school of the National Academy of Art.

Originally hired as an easel painter, in 1935 Alston became the first African American supervisor to work for the WPA's Federal Art Project in New York, which would also serve as his first mural work.

Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the “ dean of the Impressionist painters ", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also " by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality ”.

Dionysius Thrax in his Art of Grammar also refers to it as " for sending ( a letter )", from the verb epistéllō " send to ", a word from the same root as epistle.

Apart from being the focus of the country's literature and theatre, Dublin is also the focal point for much of Irish Art and the Irish artistic scene.

In June 1825, he resolved to embark on an improved version of his " Anger of Achilles " ( also known as the " Sacrifice of Iphigenie "; the earlier version was completed in 1819 and is now in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

Chambers, in 1728, followed the earlier lead of John Harris's Lexicon Technicum of 1704 and later editions ( see also below ); this work was by its title and content " A Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves ".

Alongside these major festivals, there is also the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival ( moved to June from 2008 ), the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Some scholars believe that, because the only evidence for the " courts of love " is Andreas Capellanus ’ s book The Art of Courtly Love, they probably never existed ; to further strengthen their argument, they say that there is also no evidence that Marie ever stayed with her mother in Poitiers, beyond her name being mentioned in Andreas ’ s work.

Sometimes a Set Designer is also the First Assistant Art Director.

He also painted a canvas for the altar of the Church of San Francisco El Grande in Madrid, which led to his appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Art.

A later book also claiming to have been written by Solomon was originally written in Greek during the 15th century, where it was known as the Magical Treatise of Solomon or the Little Key of the Whole Art of Hygromancy, Found by Several Craftmen and by the Holy Prophet Solomon.

The Art Nouveau movement in particular made great use of glass, with René Lalique, Émile Gallé, and Daum of Nancy important names in the first French wave of the movement, producing colored vases and similar pieces, often in cameo glass, and also using lustre techniques.