deadpan

Feeling word · 11 styles

Facial muscles not moving. Frontal, symmetrical, eyes aimed nowhere, no shadow transition; still and silent. Of portraits, frontal views, carved heads.

Styles

• Cold Abstraction
• Metaphysical
• Photorealism
• Conceptual
• Byzantine Icon Painting
• Anatomical Wax Sculpture
• Medical Illustration
• Corporate Memphis
• Fashion Editorial
• Conceptual Typed Card
• Daylight Street Editorial

Co-occurs with

• rim lighting
• overhead light
• photocopier grain
• namelessness
• strikethrough
• meaninglessness
• hard-edge abstraction
• side lighting
• body
• pixel block
• facelessness
• remoteness

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