stylized
(adjective)
Art that is not naturalistic but not distorted enough to be abstract.
(adjective)
Art that is not naturalistic, yet not distorted enough to be abstract.
Examples of stylized in the following topics:
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Illustrated Books in the Early Middle Ages
- Insular art is often characterized by detailed geometric designs, interlace, and stylized animal decorations in illuminated manuscripts.
- Insular art is characterized by detailed geometric designs, interlace, and stylized animal decoration spread boldly across illuminated manuscripts.
- Although influenced by this Mediterranean tradition, the Kells manuscript presents this motif in an Insular spirit, where the arcades are not seen as architectural elements but rather become stylized geometric patterns with Insular ornamentation .
- However, notice the elaborate geometric and stylized ornamentation in the arcade that highlights the Insular aesthetic.
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Art of the Persian Empire
- The gold rhyton below, which bears a stylized ram's head in relief, dates to the Achaemenid period.
- The stylized profile pose in which the king stands recalls the dominant Egyptian style of depicting the human body in art.
- This stylized relief of Cyrus borrows from the Egyptian style of depicting the human body and proclaims the king's ethnicity and rank in three languages.
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Etruscan Sculpture
- Similar to Greek centaur sculptures of this period, the body appears to have depicted a standing human with a stylized cylindrical equine body emerging from the back.
- The centaur's hair falls in stylized plaits like its Greek counterparts.
- The hair of Apulu is stylized and falls across his shoulders and down his neck and back in stylized, geometric twists that seem to represent braids.
- The garment's folds are patterned and stylized but cling to the body, allowing the viewer to clearly distinguish the god's chest and thigh muscles.
- Their hair is stylized, and their gestures are animated.
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Temple Architecture in the Greek Orientalizing Period
- Each rider has a stylized nose, eyes, and eyebrows and wears a helmet.
- Its frieze consisted of six stylized panthers standing in high relief.
- Atop the frieze sit two stylized female sculptures in the round who face each other.
- The face of each figure has almond-shaped eyes and stylized eyebrows similar to those on Egyptian sculptures.
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Dogon Sculpture
- Dogon art is extremely versatile, although common stylistic characteristics – such as a tendency towards stylization – are apparent on the statues.
- The Dogon style has evolved into a kind of cubism: ovoid head, squared shoulders, tapered extremities, pointed breasts, forearms and thighs on a parallel plane, and hair stylized by three or four incised lines.
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Textiles of the Inca
- For example, Inca officials wore stylized tunics decorated with certain motifs, and soldiers of the Inca army had specific uniforms.
- Inca officials wore stylized tunics decorated with certain motifs, while soldiers of the Inca army had specific uniforms.
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Minoan Painting
- The human figures are stylized, with narrow waists; broad shoulders; long, slender, muscular legs; and cylindrical arms.
- Minoan ceramics and vase painting are uniquely stylized and are similar in artistic style to Minoan wall painting.
- These stylized floral shapes include lilies, palms, papyrus, and leaves and fill the entire surface of the pot with bold designs.
- The octopus is painted in great detail, from each of its distinct stylized suckers to its bulbous head and the extension of its long tentacles.
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Sculpture in the Greek Archaic Period
- For instance, their hair is stylized and patterned, either held back with a headband or under a cap.
- Kroisos's hair, while still stylized, falls naturally over his neck and onto his back, unlike that of the New York Kouros, which falls down stiffly and in a single sheet.
- Their hair is also stylized, depicted in long strands or braids that cascade down the back or over the shoulder.
- His hair remains stylized with round, geometric curls and textured patterns.
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Aegina
- His hair is stylized with round, geometric curls and textured patterns.
- Despite the sculpture in the Archaic period becoming increasingly more naturalistic, the body was still stylized and idealized to create a perfect form, and the face was given a masking smile to give the statue a bit more life.
- While Classical sculpture is still stylized and idealistic, there is much more naturalism used, and the figures begin to react to their surroundings.
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Painting of the Early Dynastic Period
- The Early Dynastic Period of Ancient Egypt reached a high level in painting and sculpture that was both highly stylized and symbolic.
- Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in painting and sculpture, and was both highly stylized and symbolic.