Yet the most imaginative of them are intriguing examples of vernacular design, whose choice of symbolism is expressive, often eccentric and tells us a great deal about the character of the club, its history and location.
He used a finer degree of detail in the artwork, through a wider variety of carving tools, and was expressive in his use of symbolism and exaggerated emotional facial expressions.
These are clothes that carry meaning in their forms, manifesting narratives of autobiography, symbolism, and material processes as complex and expressive as any painting, without giving up any of the edgy comfort and wearable sex appeal that defines the brand.
A huge box-office success, it initiated a series of action films that won Woo international acclaim for their unprecedented mixture of expressive slow motion, nostalgia for lost codes of honour, Christian symbolism, melodramatic emotions, and hyperbolic violence.
It also made him an oddball in mid-20th-century design, which was dominated by Modernist purists, who were deeply suspicious of anything "decorative" or "self-expressive". Ponti shared Fornasetti's love of theatricality and historic symbolism, but many of their contemporaries dismissed him as a whimsical eccentric.
Reductive through the iconographic symbolism of their facades (the cross, the dome, the crescent) and expressive in their ability to bend forms both platonic and familiar into distorted remnants of clearer counterparts.
Darkness and horror inspired deeply personal, highly expressive art in a variety of styles, all of which fit under the umbrella of symbolism, as long as they embodied its peculiarly gloomy state of mind (2 ).
