the historical analysis and interpretive study of symbols or images and their contextual significance; iconography. 2. the study of icons or symbolic representations. Origin of iconology. 1720-1730.
Shrek may well be a work of fiction, but the common consensus suggests that the pug-eared and pug-ugly hero was based on a real person. A famous wrestler, to be precise, who was once known as the âThe Angel.â.
Introduced by the tune All Star performed by Smash Mouth (during the credits), Shrek was a large, surly, sarcastic, wisecracking, Scottish-accented greenish ogre with a round face and stinky breath, who took a mud shower outdoors near his swamp home, and blew fart bubbles in a mud pool.