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pictorialism
[ pik-tawr-ee-uh-liz-uhm, -tohr- ]
noun
- Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
- emphasis on purely photographic or scenic qualities for its own sake, sometimes with a static or lifeless effect:
The movie's self-conscious pictorialism makes it little more than a travelogue.
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pictorialism1
Example Sentences
The first sequence of Edward Berger’s new German-language adaptation of Remarque’s novel announces about as loudly as possible that it’s on the side of pictorialism and spectacle.
Vidor emphasized the faces of his characters, Sarris wrote, rather than pictorialism and spectacle.
First came her association with Pictorialism, in which photographs aspired to a visual relationship with traditional painting.
Composition, surface texture, traditional subject range, obvious manipulation and hand-crafting — Pictorialism prized the making of a picture over merely taking one, which doubters complained was all a camera could ultimately do.
Her way is short on pomp in her exquisite calligraphic musical pictorialism.
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