Iconography Styles

Iconography Styles. In the visual arts style is a distinctive manner which permits the grouping of works into related categories or any distinctive and therefore recognizable way in which an act is performed or an artifact made or ought to be performed and made. SHAIVA ICONOGRAPHY IN CHOLA TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE Fig.

With few exceptions nearly all icon styles are some variation of the big four styles. They let people overcome a language barrier and navigate comfortably in. Iconography as a branch of art history studies the identification description and interpretation of the content of images.

With few exceptions nearly all icon styles are some variation of the big four styles.

For the Platonic minded yes one could argue all icon styles are the children of Mother Outline and Father Glyph but alas lets talk icon styles not philosophy. Shiva sculpture detail Chola Period Image source. It refers to the visual appearance of a work of art that relates it to other works by the same artist or one from the same period training. Refer to the iconography section of The Tizen Design Guidelines Introduction and Styles for.