Examples of imagery in the following topics:
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- Similar to Pop Art, Photorealism was also a reactionary movement that stemmed from the ever increasing and overwhelming abundance of photographic media, which by the mid 20th century had grown into such a massive phenomenon that it was threatening to lessen the value of imagery in art.
- While pop artists were primarily pointing out the absurdity of the imagery that dominated mass culture—such as advertising, comic books, and mass-produced cultural objects—photorealists aimed to reclaim and exalt the value of the image.
- Photorealist painters gather imagery and visual information through the use of the photograph, which is then transferred onto the canvas either by projecting a slide of the image onto the canvas, or by the traditional technique of the grid.
- Stylistically, this results in painted compositions that are tight and precise, often with an emphasis on imagery that requires a high level of technical prowess and virtuosity to simulate; for example, reflections in surfaces and embellished, man-made environments .
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- This allowed for the widespread availability of visually persuasive imagery.
- The Protestant Reformation induced a wave of iconoclasm, or the destruction of religious imagery, among the more radical evangelists .
- Protestant leaders, especially Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin, actively eliminated imagery from their churches and regarded the great majority of religious images as idolatrous, even plain crosses.
- On the other hand, Martin Luther encouraged the display of a restricted range of religious imagery in churches.
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- Iconic imagery depicted religious, social and cultural issues that were central to their beliefs, and many bronze plaques featured representations of the Oba.
- As trade flourished, Benin art began to depict European influence through technique, imagery, and themes.
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- During the persecution of Christians under the Roman Empire, Christian art was necessarily and deliberately furtive and ambiguous, using imagery that was shared with pagan culture but had a special meaning for Christians.
- Compare imagery found in early Christian art with that of its pagan predecessor
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- One scholar has suggested that this imagery was used to suggest that Christ had replaced the Norse pagan god Odin, who in one myth hung for nine nights in the tree Yggdrasill.
- One scholar has suggested that this imagery was used to suggest that Christ had replaced the Norse pagan god Odin, who in one myth hung for nine nights in the tree Yggdrasill.
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- The work of Albrecht Durer demonstrates a very technical and accurate depiction of imagery in works such as "Young Hare" .
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- It is perhaps most associated with its use in Christian imagery during the Renaissance era in Europe.
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- The numerous examples of bull imagery in Minoan culture point to the significance of the animal, but its precise cultural significance for the Minoans is still unknown.
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- Sculptural forms include humans, animals, and cylinder seals with cuneiform writing and imagery in the round or as reliefs.
- The trough, cylinder seals, and various other sculptures of the Uruk period serve as examples of the rich narrative imagery that arose during this time.
- A cylinder seal discovered in the royal tomb of Queen Puabi depicts two registers of a palace banquet scene punctuated by cuneiform script, marking a growing complexity in the imagery of this form of notarization.
- Although much of the lyre, whose dominant material was wood, disintegrated over time, contemporaneous imagery depicts lyres with similar decoration.
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- Abstract art, nonfigurative art, nonobjective art, and nonrepresentational art are related terms that indicate a departure from reality in the depiction of imagery in art.