mass

(noun)

a large quantity; a sum

Related Terms

Examples of mass in the following topics:

  • The Bhakti Movement

    • The Bhakti Movement resulted in a mass of devotional literature, music, and art that gave India renewed spiritual impetus.
    • Altogether, Bhakti resulted in a mass of devotional literature, music, and art that has enriched the world and given India renewed spiritual impetus, one eschewing unnecessary ritual and artificial social boundaries.

  • Carving

    • Carving is the oldest sculptural technique, and uses the subtractive process, or the removal of material, to cut away areas from a larger mass.
    • Carving is the oldest sculptural technique, and uses the "subtractive process", or the removal of material from a larger mass.

  • Pop Art

    • Pop Art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books, and mundane, cultural objects.
    • Selecting the old-fashioned comic strip as subject matter, Lichtenstein produced hard-edged, precise compositions that documented mass culture while simultaneously creating parodies of it in a soft manner.
    • Lichtenstein's contribution to Pop Art merged popular and mass culture with the techniques of fine art, while injecting humor, irony, and recognizable imagery and content into the final product.
    • This detached manner illustrated the idealization of mass production and its inherent anonymity.

  • European Expressionist Architecture

    • The style was characterized by an early-modernist adoption of novel materials, formal innovation, and very unusual massing—sometimes inspired by natural biomorphic forms and sometimes by the new technical possibilities offered by the mass production of brick, steel, and glass.

  • Photorealism

    • 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.

  • Defining the Baroque Period

    • In the Baroque style of architecture, emphasis was placed on bold spaces, domes, and large masses, as exemplified by the Queluz National Palace in Portugal.
    • In the Baroque style of architecture, emphasis was placed on bold spaces, domes, and large masses, as exemplified by the Queluz National Palace in Portugal.

  • Painting in the Late Byzantine Empire

    • As Late Byzantine painting became more naturalistic, bodies gained mass and figures portrayed humanity with emotion and movement; these developments and traditions continued into the Post-Byzantine age.
    • The figures in this calm scene have mass.
    • While the Virgin Mary still appears to be a mass of robes, her drapery is more subtly rendered.

  • Block Books

    • The mass production of paper in fifteenth-century Europe opened the door for the proliferation of printed books.
    • The increasing mass production of paper, coupled with the invention of the printing press in fifteenth-century Europe, opened the doors for the proliferation of printed books.

  • Moche

    • Moche ceramics vary widely in shape and theme and are not generally uniform, although the use of mold technology enabled for mass production.

  • Light and Value

    • In two-dimensional artworks, the use of value can help to give a shape the illusion of mass or volume.