idiom

Examples of idiom in the following topics:

• Japanese Art after World War II

  • Contemporary paintings within the modern idiom began to make conscious use of traditional Japanese art forms, devices, and ideologies.
  • At times, all of these schools (along with older ones, such as the Kano school ink traditions) were drawn on by contemporary artists in the Japanese style and in the modern idiom.

• Southern Style Temples in Southeast Asia

  • Dravidian architecture was an architectural idiom that emerged in the Southern part of the Indian subcontinent, or South India.

• Codices of the Mixtec

  • This means that no idiom or phrase in the Mixtec language describing two people sitting facing each other is a metaphor for marriage.

• Spanish Architecture in the Baroque Period

  • For example, by 1667, the facades of Granada Cathedral (by Alonso Cano) and Jaén Cathedral (by Eufrasio López de Rojas) suggest the artists' fluency in interpreting traditional motifs of Spanish cathedral architecture in the Baroque aesthetic idiom.

• Calligraphy during the Six Dynasties Period

  • This celebrated work of literature both flows rhythmically and gives rise to several Chinese idioms.

• Italian Architecture in the Baroque Period

  • Fontana's academic approach, though lacking the dazzling inventiveness of his Roman predecessors, exerted substantial influence on Baroque architecture both through his prolific writings and through the number of architects he trained, who would disseminate the Baroque idioms throughout 18th-century Europe.

• Contemporary Indian Art

  • Though the group was dissolved in 1956, it was profoundly influential in changing the idiom of Indian art.