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  2. Mental image - Wikipedia

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    Visual imagery is the ability to create mental representations of things, people, and places that are absent from an individual’s visual field.

  3. Great America (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The canvas, which is stretched directly onto the wall, creates a screen or backdrop onto which viewers project their own associations triggered by the powerful imagery." [ 4 ] Writing about the painting in The Wall Street Journal , Kelly Crow expands upon the idea of the canvas as an amusement park scene, with a group of black people aboard the ...

  4. Creative visualization - Wikipedia

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    Creative visualization is the cognitive process of purposefully generating visual mental imagery, with eyes open or closed, [1] [2] simulating or recreating visual perception, [3] [4] in order to maintain, inspect, and transform those images, [5] consequently modifying their associated emotions or feelings, [6] [7] [8] with intent to experience a subsequent beneficial physiological ...

  5. Imagery - Wikipedia

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    Imagery is visual symbolism, or figurative language that evokes a mental image or other kinds of sense impressions, especially in a literary work, but also in other activities such as. Imagery in literature can also be instrumental in conveying tone .

  6. The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Wikipedia

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    Cartwright and Nakamura (2009) interpret Hokusai's tribulations as the source of the series' powerful and innovative imagery. [24] Hokusai's goal for the series appears to have been depicting the contrast between the sacred Mount Fuji and secular life.

  7. Cultural depictions of lions - Wikipedia

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    The common motif of the "majestic and powerful" lion was introduced to China by Buddhist missionaries from India, somewhere in the first century AD. [58] Lions themselves, however, are not native to China, yet appear in the art of China and the Chinese people believe that lions protect humans from evil spirits, hence the Chinese New Year lion ...

  8. From the ashes of a Pasadena synagogue, a powerful ... - AOL

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    Though the imagery was faint, it shone bright in the sun. An etched mural stands alone at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center after being destroyed in the Eaton Fire. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles ...

  9. Picture superiority effect - Wikipedia

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    Allan Paivio's dual-coding theory is a basis of picture superiority effect. Paivio claims that pictures have advantages over words with regards to coding and retrieval of stored memory because pictures are coded more easily and can be retrieved from symbolic mode, while the dual coding process using words is more difficult for both coding and retrieval.