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  2. Style (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Traditional art history has also placed great emphasis on the individual style, sometimes called the signature style, [28] of an artist: "the notion of personal style—that individuality can be uniquely expressed not only in the way an artist draws, but also in the stylistic quirks of an author's writing (for instance)— is perhaps an axiom ...

  3. Visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Training in the visual arts has generally been through variations of the apprentice and workshop systems. In Europe, the Renaissance movement to increase the prestige of the artist led to the academy system for training artists, and today most of the people who are pursuing a career in the arts train in art schools at tertiary levels.

  4. Gamelan - Wikipedia

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    Varieties of gamelan are distinguished by their collection of instruments and use of voice, tunings, repertoire, style, and cultural context. In general, no two gamelan ensembles are the same, and those that arose in prestigious courts are often considered to have their own style and tuning.

  5. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    Elements of art are stylistic features that are included within an art piece to help the artist communicate. [1] The seven most common elements include line, shape, texture, form, space, color and value, with the additions of mark making, and materiality.

  6. Silverpoint - Wikipedia

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    The softness of these metals made them effective drawing instruments. [1] Goldsmiths also used metalpoint drawings to prepare their detailed, meticulous designs. Albrecht Dürer 's father was one such craftsman who later taught his young son to draw in metalpoint, to such good effect that his 1484 Self-Portrait at the Age of 13 is still ...

  7. Ragamala paintings - Wikipedia

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    Cleveland Museum of Art Sangita Ratnakara is an important 12th century CE treatise on the classification of Indian Ragas, which for the first time mentions the presiding deity of each raga. [ 2 ] From the 14th century onwards, they were described in short verses in Sanskrit, for dhyana , 'contemplation', and later depicted in a series of ...

  8. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as".A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms.

  9. Klangfarbenmelodie - Wikipedia

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    Detail from "Farben", 3rd movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Fünf Orchesterstücke Op. 16 (1909).. Klangfarbenmelodie (German for "sound-color melody") is a musical concept that treats timbre as a melodic element.