Style (visual arts)
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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
External links
- Style (visual arts) @ Wikipedia
