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verism (vēr`ĭzəm), artistic style in which photographic realism is combined with hallucinatory or ironic images. Its practitioners, including Salvador Dalí Dalí, Salvador (sälväthōr` dälē`, dä`lē), 1904–89, Spanish painter. ..... Click the link for more information. and Yves Tanguy Tanguy, Yves (ēv täNgē`), 1900–1955, French surrealist painter. ..... Click the link for more information. , often make use of Renaissance concepts of perspective and various academic conventions. The style is also termed veristic surrealism surrealism (sərē`əlĭzəm) ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At the very heart of the image, on the bulging surface of the foreground vase, is a reflection, van Eyckian in its minute verism, of the window in the background, with the artist at her easel in front of it: "Hannah Hoch fuit hic" as maker of the image and its chief witness as well. Although the so-called Antoninus Pius fits comfortably with the rest of Antico's oeuvre, the other three display an interest in characterization, a kind of verism that is not otherwise evident in Antico's work, not even in his medallic portraits. Jimmy McGovern's dialogue is by turns pungent and poignant and always well-served by a cast dedicated to unfussy verism. |
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