Cliche
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CLICHE-VERRE (GLASS PRINT). (see printmaking techniques)
A process of planographic printing. From the French term "clichoverre.
Based on the visual cliche s, subject matter, and impersonal style of popular mass-media imagery.
It is difficult to avoid the cliched but fascinating comparison between Lorenzo the Magnificent's Florence or the splendid court of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino with classical Athens at its zenith under Pericles in the fifth century B.C.
These pictures betray no trace of the cliches usually adopted by official battle-artists; they convey the excitement and romantic uplift evoked in the artist's mind by scenes of mortal conflict.
In his work, cliche and self-parody are mixed with dazzling spurts of invention and moments of poetic insight.
"Everyone's a critic" is a cliche, but it's also true. The world is not always kind and understanding toward bold creativity. Negative criticism — ridicule and punishment — whether true or not, should be deflected.
It should be noted that urinating cherubs are basically a cliche in the modern fountain industry.
" The banjo had become a symbol of derision, and caricatures of insipid, smiling African-Americans strumming the instrument were a cliche.
During his peak (1956-1966), he helped make contempt an acceptable and now even cliched onstage emotion, argued for the cleansing wisdom of bad behaviour and bad taste, and combined unsparing truthfulness with devastating wit.[citation needed] ...
 See also: Painting, Roman, Expression, Movement, Classic
  
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