canonical

Examples of canonical in the following topics:

• Sculpture in the Greek High Classical Period

  • He was also an art theorist who developed a canon of proportion (called the Canon) that is demonstrated in his statue of Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) Many of Polykleitos's bronze statues from the Classical period, including the Doryphoros, survive only as Roman copies executed in marble.
  • Another example of the Canon at work is seen in Polykleitos's statue of Diadumenos, a youth trying on a headband and his statue Discophoros, a discus bearer.
  • The nudity allows the harmony of parts, or symmetria, to easily be seen, illustrating the principles discussed in the Canon.
  • The Canon focused on the proportion of parts of the body in relationship to each other to create the ideal male form.
  • The Discophoros and Diadumenos, along with the Doryphoros, demonstrate the flexibility of composition based on the Canon and the innate liveliness produced by contrapposto postures.

• Figure

  • Impressionist painters portrayed ordinary subjects in a simple, natural, and realistic style, breaking the traditional canon of painting.
  • Captured in a realistic fashion, as they-were-seen by the artists, the portrayal of these ordinary subjects represents one of the main breaks with the traditional canon of painting campaigned by the rebellious impressionists.
  • In Olympia he purposefully deviates from the academic canon in its style, characterized by broad, quick brushstrokes, studio lighting that eliminates mid-tones, large color surfaces and shallow depth.

• Marble Sculpture and Architecture in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • He is most renowned for his treatise on the male nude, known as the Canon, which describes the ideal, aesthetic body based on mathematical proportions and Classical conventions such as contrapposto.
  • His Doryphoros, or Spear Bearer, is believed to be his representation of the Canon in sculpted form.
  • The statue, as a visualization of Polykletios's canon, also depicts the Greek sense of symmetria, the harmony of parts, seen here in the body's proportions.
  • Polykleitos's Doryphoros, or Spear Bearer, is believed to be his representation of the Canon in sculpted form.

• Context of Creation

  • The canon of art history, however, has historically conveyed the political, religious, and philosophical ideals of the dominant power.

• Painting under the Yuan Dynasty

  • The Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) saw the consolidation of poetry, painting, and calligraphy into a unified canon of classical Chinese art.

• Thai Painting

  • This style emphasized the spiritual aspect of the Buddha and tried to follow the canonical defining marks of a Buddha, as they are set out in ancient Pali texts:

• Dover Castle in England

  • Twiss also constructed Canon's Gateway to link the defenses of the castle with those of the town.

• Thai Buddhist Sculpture

  • Theravada Buddhism had a considerable influence on Sukhothai art, which favored highly stylized images of the Buddha—images cast with the intention of depicting his superhuman traits and in keeping with his canonical defining marks, as set out in ancient Buddhist texts.

• Individualist Painting under the Qing Dynasty

  • His paintings exemplify the internal contradictions and tensions of the literati or scholar-amateur artist, and they have been interpreted as an invective against art-historical canonization.

• Defining the Baroque Period

  • In music, the Baroque style makes up a large part of the classical canon.