Definition of Conventionalisation

1. Noun. The act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style.

Exact synonyms: Conventionalization
Generic synonyms: Stylisation, Stylization
Derivative terms: Conventionalise, Conventionalize, Conventionalize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conventionalisation

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Literary usage of Conventionalisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1895)
"The tendency to conventionalisation further appears be a general and continuing ... "Whatever the starting-points in naturalistic form, conventionalisation ..."

2. The Art Teaching of John Ruskin by William Gershom Collingwood (1891)
"The vulgar conventionalisation places them symmetrically and considers its work complete. But leaves, for example, may be regularly disposed and yet meanly ..."

3. Persian Miniatures by Harrison Griswold Dwight (1917)
"... anything at all—on which there is no reason to insist—it is probably a conventionalisation of some plant form, and far more ancient than the regalia of ..."

4. Moot Points: Friendly Disputes on Art & Industry Between Walter Crane by Walter Crane, Lewis Foreman Day (1903)
"But we differ still, do we not ? as to the degree of conventionalisation. ... The degree of conventionalisation or formalism must be governed ..."

5. Education in the United States of America: Pts. 1-[2] Presented to Both by Great Britain Board of Education (1902)
"Design and colour; Borders, rosettes, and surface patterns; simple problems in decorative designs, simple conventionalisation of plant forms ; the use of ..."

6. Boston Public Schools: Outline of Lessons in Drawing, 1898-99 by James Frederick Hopkins (1898)
"Conversational lesson with plant forms, blossoms, and leaves to develop an idea of idealisation or conventionalisation as applied to units and material for ..."

7. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1921)
"The child's visual expression is further used for exercise in conventionalisation, and so into elementary design as a pattern for his carving chisel or ..."

8. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"As a writer he practises the art of conventionalisation with the soundest judgment and the most cautious intelligence—we discover that this speaker can do ..."

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