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verism
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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.
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 and Yves Tanguy Tanguy, Yves (ēv täNgē`), 1900–1955, French surrealist painter.
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, often make use of Renaissance concepts of perspective and various academic conventions. The style is also termed veristic surrealism surrealism (sərē`əlĭzəm)
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He highlights the veristic nature of Quattrocento art in general, seeing its naturalism as an invitation to deeper spirituality not just in this manuscript, but in the overall development of Renaissance art.
Hannah Hoch, best known for her collage production, turns to oil on canvas for her extraordinarily veristic Glasses of 1927.
In some of his previous movies, Stone used extreme realism to so intensify the violent passages that the result verged on nightmare while remaining basically veristic.
 
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