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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.
..... Click the link for more information.  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.
..... 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 , 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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The Verist artists, such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and George Grosz, portrayed the Weimar demimonde of prostitutes, pimps, cocaine addicts and transvestites and also businessmen, lawyers and poets.
Glitter and doom; German portraits from the 1920s by Reference & Research Book News
As its catalogue is quick to declare, the show's focus is on the left-leaning Verist wing of Neue Sachlichkeit practice, foregoing the tame society portraits and classicizing views also associated with the term.
The body politic by Bader, Graham / Artforum International
In general, the verist replacement of the universal by the strongly regional setting aroused international admiration, and in a musicologist of Nejedly's erudition what therefore emerged as a certain prudery in relation to world movements is surprising.
Janacek: a few glosses on his operas by Stedron, Milos / Czech Music
 
 
 
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