Sentence examples for didactic functions from inspiring English sources

Bell pointed to the works of Paul Cézanne as those in which formal properties were manifested most purely, and Bell also attacked the public's preoccupation with the anecdotal, narrative, and morally didactic functions of traditional realistic painting.

The presence of contrasting explanations, opinions, and viewpoints can serve important didactic functions.

The aim of this article is to explore the positions and didactic functions of the fourth wall in medical communication training, using a role-play model basically similar to a theatrical performance.

The shift began when the Louvre opened to the public after the French Revolution and assumed a didactic function.

Literature for Achebe had a didactic function; working for officialdom thus was not a stretch.

In this instance there is a danger that the trial's didactic function will induce cynicism and achieve the opposite of what is intended.

Like most religious art of the day, these programmatic sets of pictures ostensibly served a didactic function, illustrating for a largely illiterate audience the basic stories and symbols of Christianity.

This leads to a suggestion: what if modern museums of art kept in mind the example of the didactic function of Christian art, in order once in a while to reframe how they presented their collections?

In Du théâtre (1773; "About the Theatre"), he emphasized the didactic function of the theatre, and in his plays he presented a thesis, subordinating dramatic considerations to the didactic end.

The attitude reflected in these practices was expressed in the famous dictum of Pope Gregory I, that art is the book of the illiterate; art was thus conceived as having a didactic function.

Bai was the informal leader of a group of poets who rejected the courtly style of the time and emphasized the didactic function of literature, believing that every literary work should contain a fitting moral and a well-defined social purpose.