Taking into account all of the stylistic and compositional elements that appear in the piece, Samson Captured by the Philistines can be most likely classified within the artistic period of the Italian Baroque. ... Again we look to the focal point of the painting to distill other elements of style. ... The diagonal then ironically leads to the traitor Delilah attempting to help Samson from the ambush. Other stylistic elements highlight the emphasis of its Baroque categorization, which include the use of a vibrant color palette on the clothes of Delilah. The elements of light and movement work t...

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This essay will highlight some of the aesthetic differences of Indian and Western art, from a technical, stylistic and symbolic point of view. ... Stylistically and symbolically, narrative representation of Indian art is also a world away from that of the western world. ... Artists and viewers alike are brought up having similar ebullience in expression and the understanding of the concept of illusion through illusory elements (Maya). ... Throughout Indian art, there are symbolic staples that help define its purpose. ... It has also helped shaped the judgement, attitude, understanding and emot...

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Three kind of brand attributes: corporate and brand history and core competencies, product and stylistic identity and visual identity. ... Stylistic identity defines the long term stylistic codes belonging to a brand (forms, colors, materials, product categories). ... Clearly, a strong consistency among stylistic identity and visual identity must exist in order to build a strong brand. Nevertheless stylistic identity and visual identity do not have to become a jail where the brand ages and looses relevance for its target. ... And it is not always true that going back to the roots "...

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Many of the thematic elements in "Taxi Driver" are borrowed from other movies which exhibit distinct film noir qualities. ... This disillusionment developed stylistically after American audiences sought a grittier, grimier reality than that featured in the studio-based productions of the thirties. ... The notion that America perhaps was not worth the effort lurks beneath the surface of many films noir, but this disillusionment becomes even more apparent in "Taxi Driver," both thematically and stylistically. ... Schrader argues that World War Two helped to generate the kind of cynicism, which ...

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He wants to show that a society that exalts the lowest common denominator (the homely, the stupid, and the mediocre) by handicapping all those with talent, intellect, and beauty, can never help those with natural disabilities. ... Democratic institutions help to control people's baser natures, but even the most well-meaning behavior can create new problems. ... While there are elements of science fiction in his stories, he is more clearly a fantasist "one who creates a believable but purely imaginary world such as one finds in Lewis Carroll's, Alice's Adventures in Wonderla...

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"He not only helped spawn an entire extreme genre around gore and technical guitar wizardry, but like horror movies sometimes do, 'Death' also challenged our notions of life" (Gotrich, 2011). He is credited by many as the "godfather of death metal music" (Renda, 1999) and "showed the foresight and courage to not only help create the rules of death metal, but to demonstrate how to break them" (von Nagel, 2011). ... 'Morbid Angel's' Pete Sandoval developed the previously established technique of blast beat drumming by aligning it to a time signature (Ekeroth, ...

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Ability, temperament, and dynamic traits are seen as capturing the major stable elements of personality. ... Temperament traits relate to the emotional life of the person, the stylistic quality of behavior, the behavior of a person that vary from individual to individual. ... Factor analysis assumes that behaviors that covary across individuals are related but independent of others, thereby determining the units or natural elements in personality structure. ...

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