v. [f. STYLE sb. + -IZE, after G. stilisiren.] trans. To conform (an artistic representation) to the rules of a conventional style; to conventionalize. Chiefly in pa. pple. Hence Stylized ppl. a.; also Stylization.
1898. Q. Rev., July, 97. All Phœnician objects, as yet surely ascribed, belong to the stylized and eclectic art of Tyre.
1901. A. J. Evans, in Oxf. Univ. Gaz., 12 Feb., 339/1. A highly stylized bull’s leg of ivory, from a stool.
1904. Q. Rev., April, 428. The comparison of form in real objects and form as modified, ‘stylised,’ by art.
1908. A. J. Evans, in Anthropol. & Classics, 12. The progressive degeneration and stylization of the heads of horses, goats, deer and oxen.
1912. H. G. Spearing, Childh. of Art, v. 118. Stylisation … is now generally admitted to be a sort of degeneration, though some consider it only as a stage in the evolution of art to a higher plane.
