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  2. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    The Art of Painting by Jan Vermeer. The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought.

  3. Theosophy and visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Theosophy takes art into Dan Brown territory. No serious student of art history wants to touch it. [205] Januszczak claimed also that Theosophy was "fraudulent" and "ridiculous," and that "one day, someone will write a big book on the remarkable influence of Theosophy on modern art" and "its nonsensical spell" on so many modern artists. [206]

  4. BDSM - Wikipedia

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    This 1921 art of a clothed male, naked female is an illustration of male dominance and female submission. BDSM is commonly mistaken as being "all about pain". [ 28 ] Freud was confounded by the complexity and counterintuitiveness of practitioners' doing things that are self-destructive and painful. [ 29 ]

  5. Glossary of BDSM - Wikipedia

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    Financial domination: (Also known as money slavery or findom) is a sexual fetish associated with a practice of dominance and submission, where a submissive (money slave, finsub, paypig, human ATM, or cash piggy) will give gifts and money to a financial dominant (money Mistress/Master, findomme/findom, money Dom/Domme or cash Master/Mistress).

  6. Dominatrix - Wikipedia

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    Phyllis and Aristotle, a fictional tale written in the 13th century, as depicted by artist Giovanni Buonconsiglio in the early 1500s. A dominatrix (/ ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ k s / DOM-in-AY-triks; pl. dominatrixes or dominatrices / ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ s iː z, ˌ d ɒ m ɪ n ə ˈ t r aɪ s iː z / DOM-in-AY-triss-eez, DOM-in-ə-TRY-seez), or domme, is a woman who takes the ...

  7. History of art - Wikipedia

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    Medieval art grew out of the artistic heritage of the Roman Empire and of Byzantium, mixed with the "barbarian" artistic culture of northern Europe. [113] In Byzantine and Gothic art of the Middle Ages, the dominance of the church resulted in a large amount of religious art. There was extensive use of gold in paintings, which presented figures ...

  8. Dominance and submission - Wikipedia

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    The art is by Georges Topfer from his work Le rêve d’un flagellant ("The Dream of a Flagellant"). Dominance and submission (D/s) is a set of behaviors, customs, and rituals involving the submission of one person to another in an erotic episode or lifestyle. It is a subset of BDSM. This form of sexual contact and pleasure has been shown to ...

  9. Orientalism - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Snake Charmer, c. 1879. Clark Art Institute.. In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.