pictorialism
Americannoun
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Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, especially of recognizable or realistic representations.
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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.
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Her way is short on pomp in her exquisite calligraphic musical pictorialism.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2021
But even Spano’s advocacy could not save the work’s Technicolor pictorialism from sounding a bit too much like John Williams, but without the memorable melodies.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2017
She contrasts the pictorialism of such photographers as Cartier-Bresson, Steichen and Atget with the apparent vulgarity of subsequent generations of street photographers.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2016
Raised in the anarchist-utopian community of Home on Puget Sound, Haffer explored forms from pictorialism to surrealism in her work.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2011
High reliefs largely preclude this kind of pictorialism.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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