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ARTISTIC STYLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The style of a particular artist or school or movement
Example:
an imaginative orchestral idiom
Synonyms:
artistic style; idiom
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("artistic style" is a kind of...):
fashion; manner; mode; style; way (how something is done or how it happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "artistic style"):
baroque; baroqueness (elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century)
classical style (the artistic style of ancient Greek art with its emphasis on proportion and harmony)
order ((architecture) one of original three styles of Greek architecture distinguished by the type of column and entablature used or a style developed from the original three by the Romans)
rococo (fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century)
High Renaissance (the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content)
treatment (a manner of dealing with something artistically)
neoclassicism (revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation)
classicalism; classicism (a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms)
Romantic Movement; Romanticism (a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization)
