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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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Like Caravaggio, he's a hell-bent verist with a renegade baroque sensibility. While Kuspit regarded Freud's realism as de-mystifying but ultimately restrained and something of a modernist or verist cliche, Nochlin responded as if the Metropolitan exhibition were promoting exhibitionism. |
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