juxtaposition

Feeling word · 5 styles

Two or more things set next to each other. Adjacent position, mismatched scale and proportion, seams left at edges; no transition or gradient. Of layout, image.

Styles

• Surrealism
• Cubism
• Altarpiece Painting
• The Incoherents
• Flemish Altarpiece

Co-occurs with

• dovetail
• disorder
• the absurd
• the bizarre
• anamorphosis
• multiple viewpoints
• incongruity
• illusion
• impossibility
• shattering
• the numinous
• overpainted

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