Performed over the centuries by actors devoted selflessly to the profession of a traditional art, conventions of performance became highly stylized, and traditions of characterization and play structure became formalized to a point of exceptional finesse, subtlety, and sophistication.
They often employed Sāsānian (pre-Islāmic Persian) techniques and motifs: a typical decoration consists of a seated figure surrounded with wild animals, birds, and musicians, depicted in the highly stylized Sāsānian tradition.
He introduce realism -- a sense of the momentary, the individual, the everyday -- into a highly stylized painting tradition, contradicting the Muslim concept of art's function as dealing with timelessness and types.
Taken as a whole, the series has breathed passion and ambition into a piano-trio tradition that was in danger of becoming as stylized as traditional Chinese opera.
Taken as a whole, the series has breathed passion and ambition into a piano-trio tradition that was in danger of becoming as stylized as traditional Chinese opera... View Article By Phil Klay By Troy Patterson By John Cassidy By Larissa MacFarquhar.
Taken as a whole, the series has breathed passion and ambition into a piano-trio tradition that was in danger of becoming as stylized as traditional Chinese opera... View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Jia Tolentino By Jia Tolentino.
Over the course of the seminar, we will not only delve into the world-famous folk tale collection of the Grimm brothers, but also the more stylized Romantic 'Kunstmärchen¿ tradition (Goethe, Brentano, Hoffmann).
These stylized illustrations continued the traditions of ancient Persian manuscript books, but within the context of a contemporary design idiom.
Oe wants Japanese art to drop its tradition of stylized ambiguity, and help reveal the true faces of its people, without masks.
Seen more than a decade ago, this rustic mix of ancient folkish music and slapstick humor with an overlay of the stylized commedia dell'arte tradition offered many entertaining moments, though it also seemed overlong and repetitive.
