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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 , 1904–89, Spanish painter. At first influenced by futurism, in 1924 Dalí came under the influence of the Italian painter de Chirico and by 1929 he had become a leader of surrealism.
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 and Yves Tanguy Tanguy, Yves , 1900–1955, French surrealist painter. At first a merchant seaman, he saw a picture by Chirico in 1923 and instantly decided to take up painting.
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, often make use of Renaissance concepts of perspective and various academic conventions. The style is also termed veristic surrealism surrealism , literary and art movement influenced by Freudianism and dedicated to the expression of imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and free of convention.
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Lazarescu--world-weary humanism, dark humor, stylized verism, the unassuming capaciousness of a down-home comedie humaine--that the two directors have been enlisted as the twin standard-bearers for what critics have christened the Romanian New Wave.
00 Hardcover ND1316 Sinister, beautiful and sometimes just creepy, these portraits represent the Verism artistic movement, which occurred in Germany in the 1920s.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It is interesting that no one reviewing Jenufa on the Czech side, whether in Brno in 1904 or in Prague in 1916, was willing to consider the verism of the opera, even though it is an opera so distinctive for its strong regionalism and the importance of the colour and atmosphere of a very specific place.
 
 
 
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