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Pastiches
A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
📖 Definitions of "Pastiches"
noun
- 1
A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
- 2
A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
- 3
An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.
"The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles."
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A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pastiches"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| potpourrinoun | A collection of various things; an assortment, mixed bag or motley. |
| medleynoun | A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things. |
| holmesiannoun | Of or pertaining to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes or his investigations, methods, or sayings. |
| sherlockiannoun | A Sherlock Holmes scholar or fan; one who studies and/or appreciates the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
| fantasiasnoun | (music, also figurative) A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces. |
| oeuvrenoun | (uncountable, collective) A substantial or complete corpus of works produced by a artist, composer, or writer. |
| juvenilianoun | (chiefly literature) Works produced during an artist's or author's youth. |
| opusesnoun | (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance. |
| dreamscapesnoun | The landscape within a dream |
| gillraynoun | A surname. |
| surrealismnoun | (art) An artistic movement and an aesthetic philosophy that aims for the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative powers of the subconscious. |
| phantasmagorianoun | A dreamlike state where real and imagined elements are blurred together. |
| collagingnoun | A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a surface or juxtaposing them digitally in analogous manner. |
| dadaistnoun | An artist or writer who practiced Dada. |
| expressionismnoun | A movement in the arts in which the artist did not depict objective reality, but rather a subjective expression of their inner experiences. |
| absurdismnoun | (uncountable, philosophy) A philosophy which holds that the universe is chaotic and irrational and that any attempt to impose order will ultimately fail. |
| allegoriesnoun | The Four Allegories is a series of four small panel paintings in the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy by the Italian Renaissance master Giovanni Bellini, whose date has been variously argued as different points in the range 1490–1504. |
| postmodernnoun | A postmodernist. |
| collagistnoun | One who makes collages, or who has made a specific collage. |
| ford madox fordnoun | (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer; 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature. |
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