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A pastiche combining elements of paintings by Pollaiuolo and Botticelli (Portrait of a Woman and Portrait of a Young Woman [it; fr; es] respectively), using Photoshop. A pastiche (/ p æ ˈ s t iː ʃ, p ɑː-/) [1] [2] is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, music, or architecture that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. [3]
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).
An example from Paul Johnson writing about Ernest Hemingway: Some [of Hemingway's later writing] was published nonetheless, and was seen to be inferior, even a parody of his earlier work. There were one or two exceptions, notably The Old Man and the Sea , though there was an element of self-parody in that too.
The post 16 of the Most Famous Malapropism Examples appeared first on Reader's Digest. You've made a malapropism—and everyone from politicians to famous literature characters is guilty of errors ...
It is among the most parodied pieces of art worldwide. NileQT87 ( talk ) 09:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC) [ reply ] It's probably the best known example of American fine art among the British general public, up there with the Warhol tinned soup and Monroe stuff, but I agree with DeanKenton that it's nowhere near as well known as the Mona Lisa or other ...
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable and famous works of art in the world, and also one of the most replicated and reinterpreted. Mona Lisa studio versions, copies or replicas were already being painted during Leonardo's lifetime by his own students and contemporaries. Some are claimed to be the work of Leonardo himself ...
[4] [5] Many Harry Potter parodies are self-published; others are put out as part of major comic productions, such as Mad, The Simpsons, South Park, Saturday Night Live and Robot Chicken, all of which have parodied Harry Potter several times. Rowling has also been parodied (and parodied herself) in a number of instances.