With their gleaming metallic finish, their exaggerated grooves and curves, these humble household objects have been stylised into weapons of war, that visual propaganda trope of Pathé newsreels and 1940s posters.
On the blue half is the county emblem of Kent, a white horse rampant, albeit slightly altered from its normal form as its mane is stylised into the letters of the word "Gills".
The film has also been criticised for bringing stylised violence into mainstream moviemaking.
The film, which uses digital technology to insert the actors into highly stylised oil-painted backdrops of 18th-century Paris, has been widely praised for its form, which critics have described as daring, avant-garde and effective.
This is how we are beginning to cope in a time when active soldiers' stories are told first-hand on blogs: by drawing pictures and retreating into a stylised world.
English pop at the beginning of the 1960s was painterly with a graphic edge – David Hockney's The Second Marriage (1963) and Peter Blake's Self-Portrait with Badges (1961) are the link from a more orthodox figurative painting into the highly stylised work both would later produce.
Ridley Scott, coming off Alien, launched himself into something even more stylised and visually dense.
Still representational, Study of trees is highly stylised, the subject of its title organised into vertical trunks and horizontal boughs, all flattened against the picture plane.
The obverse features the Games logo, stylised shape of an athlete posed to plunge into the waves, with the inscription "Pescara 2009" and XVI Jeux méditerranéens in French and the ICMG logo at bottom three interlocking rings, representing Africa, Asia and Europe.
In an instructive diagram, Boumans suggests that a variety of factors besides theory and data feed into a model: metaphors, analogies, policy views, stylised facts, mathematical techniques, and mathematical concepts (93).
Originally it consisted of the stylised letters F, C, B, M, which were woven into one symbol.
