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  2. Hierarchical proportion - Wikipedia

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    Hierarchical proportion is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork. For example, in Egyptian times, people of higher status would sometimes be drawn or sculpted larger than those of lower status.

  3. Visual hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    A representation of hierarchical feature extraction and combination in the visual system. Visual hierarchy, according to Gestalt psychology, is a pattern in the visual field wherein some elements tend to "stand out," or attract attention, more strongly than other elements, suggesting a hierarchy of importance. [1]

  4. Hierarchical organization - Wikipedia

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    A hierarchical organization or hierarchical organisation (see spelling differences) is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity. [1] This arrangement is a form of hierarchy.

  5. Hierarchy of angels - Wikipedia

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    There is no standard hierarchical organization in Islam that parallels the Christian division into different "choirs" or spheres, and the topic is not directly addressed in the Quran. However, it is clear that there is a set order or hierarchy that exists between angels, defined by the assigned jobs and various tasks to which angels are ...

  6. Hierarchy of genres - Wikipedia

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    The hierarchy was based on a distinction between art that made an intellectual effort to "render visible the universal essence of things" (imitare in Italian) and that which merely consisted of "mechanical copying of particular appearances" (ritrarre). [2] Idealism was privileged over realism in line with Renaissance Neo-Platonist philosophy.

  7. Hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    A flat hierarchy (also known for companies as flat organization) is a branching hierarchy in which the maximum degree approaches infinity, i.e., that has a wide span. [3] Most often, systems intuitively regarded as hierarchical have at most a moderate span. Therefore, a flat hierarchy is often not viewed as a hierarchy at all.

  8. Grid format - Wikipedia

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    The grid format also features prominently in minimalist and conceptual art of the 60's and 70's. The art theorist Rosalind Krauss writes, "In the temporal dimension, the grid is an emblem of modernity by being just that: the form that is ubiquitous in the art of our century, while appearing nowhere, nowhere at all, in the art of the last one.

  9. List of art techniques - Wikipedia

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    Types of art techniques There is no exact definition of what constitutes art. Artists have explored many styles and have used many different techniques to create art ...