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Latest revision as of 04:08, 21 April 2016

In the visual arts, style refers to the appearance of a work of art that relates it to other works.

Description

Style refers to the visual appearance of a work of art that relates it to other works by the same artist or one from the same period, training, location, "school", art movement or archaeological culture.

Quotations

Style is:

"... [A] distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories."

Or, style is::

"... any distinctive, and therefore recognizable, way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made."

Style is important:

"The notion of style has long been the art historian's principal mode of classifying works of art. By style he selects and shapes the history of art".

See also

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