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  2. 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.

  3. Outline (list) - Wikipedia

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    An outline, also called a hierarchical outline, is a list arranged to show hierarchical relationships and is a type of tree structure. An outline is used [1] to present the main points (in sentences) or topics of a given subject. Each item in an outline may be divided into additional sub-items.

  4. 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.

  5. Kendo - Wikipedia

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    Kendo (Japanese: 剣道, Hepburn: Kendō, lit. ' sword way ' or ' sword path ' or ' way of the sword ') [1] is a modern Japanese martial art, descended from kenjutsu (one of the old Japanese martial arts, swordsmanship), that uses bamboo swords as well as protective armor (). [2]

  6. The arts - Wikipedia

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    By definition, the arts themselves are open to being continually redefined. The practice of modern art, for example, is a testament to the shifting boundaries, improvisation and experimentation, reflexive nature, and self-criticism or questioning that art and its conditions of production, reception, and possibility can undergo.

  7. Artistic canons of body proportions - Wikipedia

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    In 1961, Danish Egyptologist Erik Iverson described a canon of proportions in classical Egyptian painting. [2] This work was based on still-detectable grid lines on tomb paintings: he determined that the grid was 18 cells high, with the base-line at the soles of the feet and the top of the grid aligned with hair line, [3] and the navel at the eleventh line. [4]

  8. 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.

  9. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Example: The Man in the High Castle (1962). Historical fantasy; Historical mystery; Historical romance. Regency romance; Nautical fiction. Pirate novel; Metafiction (aka romantic irony in the context of Romantic literature): uses self-reference to draw attention to itself as a work of art while exposing the "truth" of a story. Metaparody ...