Some of the later paintings in the show already illustrate the bouncy, energetic shorthand that characterizes Davis's mature styles, among them "Sail Loft" (1933), an intricate canvas in which stylized parts of boats, wharves, water, fishing shacks, rope and other nautical mementos are strategically melded in a tightly designed composition.
Characterized by geometric patterns formed by the relationship of stylized body parts, Yaka figures lack the organic integration of naturalistic forms produced by the neighbouring Kongo.
These simultaneous solos, part naturalistic, part stylized, establish that everyone fantasizes.
Mr. Migliaccio describes the production's style as "expressionistic realism," which here means, in part, highly stylized movement from actors whose faces are painted with clown white.
Behind it is a vague biomorphic shape from which hands thrust out; an eye and an eyebrow are positioned on its lower part and stylized fruits from an adjacent bit of wallpaper infiltrate it.
This facial acting is a whole art in itself, highly stylized, and it is part of the pride of kathak, but to untrained Western audiences — and possibly also to a young Anglo-Bangladeshi growing up in London in the eighties and nineties — it can look like silent-movie acting.
The work lasted two hours, and every minute — whether part of a prolonged stillness or a stylized piece of theatricality — contributed to the piece's trancelike effect.
I started this project as a self-portrait series photographing myself doing stylized jumps in different parts of the city.
Given that the model has the ex ante heterogeneity, we keep this part of the model stylized, along the description in the previous section, as now the model is already highly computationally intensive.
The actor's signature moodiness is certainly in evidence, but stylized, enlarged and spotlighted, as though part of some public monument.
