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  2. Figurative art - Wikipedia

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    The formal elements, those aesthetic effects created by design, upon which figurative art is dependent, include line, shape, color, light and dark, mass, volume, texture, and perspective, [2] although these elements of design could also play a role in creating other types of imagery—for instance abstract, or non-representational or non-objective two-dimensional artwork.

  3. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    A summary of his findings, published in 1824 as Précis du système hiéroglyphique, stated "Hieroglyphic writing is a complex system, a script all at once figurative, symbolic and phonetic, in one and the same text, in one and the same sentence, and, I might even venture, one and the same word."

  4. Artistic canons of body proportions - Wikipedia

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    Figurative artArt that depicts real object sources; Nudity – State of humans wearing no clothing Depictions of nudity – Visual representations of the nude human form; Nude (art) – Work of art that has as its primary subject the unclothed human body; Neoclassicism – Western cultural movement inspired by ancient Greece and Rome

  5. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between literal and figurative language exists in all natural languages; the phenomenon is studied within certain areas of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their ...

  6. Allegory - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes the meaning of an allegory can be lost, even if art historians suspect that the artwork is an allegory of some kind. [21] Allegory has an ability to freeze the temporality of a story, while infusing it with a spiritual context. Medieval thinking accepted allegory as having a reality underlying any rhetorical or fictional uses. The ...

  7. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    It is a complex system, writing figurative, symbolic, and phonetic all at once, in the same text, the same phrase, I would almost say in the same word. [34] Illustration from Tabula Aegyptiaca hieroglyphicis exornata published in Acta Eruditorum, 1714

  8. Schema (Kant) - Wikipedia

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    Kant created an architectonic system in which there is a progression of phases from the most formal to the most empirical: [1] "Kant develops his system of corporeal nature in the following way. He starts in the Critique with the most formal act of human cognition , called by him the transcendental unity of apperception , and its various ...

  9. Systems Group - Wikipedia

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    In other words, in syntactic art the structure and form of the artwork takes precedence over its figurative representation or the viewer's interpretation. According to semiotician Charles Morris "language is a social system of signs mediating the response of members of the community to one another and to their environment." Additionally "to ...