Definitions
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- noun UK Alternative spelling of
stylization .
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- noun the act of stylizing; causing to conform to a particular style
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Examples
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"stylisation" is still described by art historians as a "degeneration" due to unintelligent repetition; but it was on the contrary the integrating process by which the representative element was subjected to such aesthetic preferences as had been established in the manufacture of objects whose usefulness or whose production involved accurate measurement and equilibrium as in the case of pottery or weapons, or rythmical reduplication as in that of textiles.
The Beautiful An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics Vernon Lee 1895
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Get past the weird stylisation and you'll find a big, absorbing game underneath.
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It certainly shows a taste for stylisation and the canted and tilted cameras Oliver has been indulging in a great deal for a good while now.
Oliver Stone’s Son Sean to Make Feature Debut With Rosemary Kennedy Thriller | /Film 2010
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The graphic stylisation, with its blocks of colour and hard black outlines, is elegant, energetic and witty, at times bringing to mind Steinberg, Patrick Caulfield, Al Hirschfeld, and Cuban poster artists.
Chico & Rita – review Philip French 2010
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His understanding of the sexual dynamics is acute, but his fondness for stylisation? slanting sets to suggest moral uncertainties? all too frequently gets in the way.
Manon 2010
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Given Raimi's fondness for stylisation, I don't know if he'd be able to reign him in…
John Malkovich to Play the Villain Vulture in Spider-Man 4? « FirstShowing.net 2009
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Couzens's analysis is that Letter from an Unknown Woman is very much Lisa's story, and it's a measure of Ophuls's stylisation that we accept it totally, when looked at from another angle her behaviour becomes highly dubious - egotistical and deluded at best, that of a stalker at worst.
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What you would rave about with his GUERNICA or at least what *I* would rave about with his GUERNICA is the abstraction and fragmentation, the use of simplified shapes to construct the whole, the incorporation of primitive cave-painting like stylisation and the way that attempts something which doesn't *represent* but does *refer to* our world.
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A mop seller, a shrimp girl, a cane hawker or a purveyor of offal- the truth of all the situations depicted are coated in stylisation of one form or another to shield the eyes of the wealthy buying public.
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The industry maintains this apparently inelegant style is all in the service of getting good photos, producing the necessary elongation and stylisation of the model's body.
The Guardian World News Judith Mackrell 2011
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