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Symbolism Symbolism
SYMBOLISM. The symbolist movement began in France in the 1880s as a literary phenomenon. The term symbolism, however, quickly came to encompass a range of arts, from painting and sculpture to theater and music. While the movement is often said to have spanned the years 1885–1895, the ideas... Read more
Signs and symbols Signs and symbols
Symbols UNIVERSAL VERSUS CULTURE-BOUND DIMENSIONS OF SYMBOLISM TERMINOLOGY AND THE LOGIC OF SYMBOLISM FEATURES OF SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION BIBLIOGRAPHY Culture is based on symbols. Flags, traffic lights, diplomas, and mathematical notation are all, in their various ways, symbols. So... Read more
still life still life
still life a pictorial representation of inanimate objects. The term derives from the 17th-century Dutch still-leven, meaning a motionless natural object or objects. Evolution of Still Life Until the Renaissance, elements of still life, often imbued with symbolic or ritual significance, appeared... Read more
Art therapy Art therapy
Art therapy Definition Art therapy, sometimes called creative arts therapy or expressive arts therapy, encourages people to express and understand emotions through artistic expression and through the creative process. Origins Humans have expressed themselves with symbols throughout history.... Read more
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North American Native art diverse traditional arts of Native North Americans. In recent years Native American arts have become commodities collected and marketed by nonindigenous Americans and Europeans. Originally, these objects were produced in different cultural contexts and for altogether... Read more
vanitas vanitas
vanitas (Latin: ‘vanity’ or ‘emptiness’). A type of still-life picture depicting an object or collection of objects symbolizing the brevity of life and the transience of all earthly pleasures and achievements. Typical motifs are a skull, an hourglass, a watch, a smoking... Read more
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portraiture portraiture
portraiture the art of representing the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary individual. The principal portrait media are painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality. Many cultures have attributed... Read more
Symbolic Interactionism Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic Interactionism Symbolic interactionism is a sociological perspective on self and society based on the ideas of George H. Mead (1934), Charles H. Cooley (1902), W. I. Thomas (1931), and other pragmatists associated, primarily, with the University of Chicago in the early twentieth... Read more
Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico
Giorgio de Chirico , 1888-1978, Italian painter, b. Vólos, Greece. Chirico developed his enigmatic vision in Munich and Italy and from 1911 to 1915 he worked and exhibited in Paris. His powerful, disturbing paintings employ steep perspective, mannequin figures, empty space, and forms used out... Read more

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