verisimilitude
Appearing to be true or real.
vernacular
The standard native language of an area. May also refer to architecture, furniture, or some other art or craft of a region, culture, or period.
Verisimilitude: - Appearing to be true or real. See likeness, realism, representation, and simulacrum. Return to top
Visual Culture: - A term which is used more and more in place of the term art. Return to top ...
verisimilitude - Appearing to be true or real. See appearance, cinema, copy, counterfeit, fake, forgery, likeness, mirror, realism, reflection, reification, representation, simulacrum, simulation, theater, trompe l'oeil, virtual, and virtual reality.
Imagery which departs from representational accuracy, to a variable range of possible degrees, for some reason other than verisimilitude... Jon Atack: Art since 1914
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of oil painting whose invention was traditionally, but erroneously, credited to Jan Van Eyck, (an important transitional figure who bridges painting in the Middle Ages with painting of the early Renaissance), made possible a new verisimilitude in ...
Realists render everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all in verisimilitude. They tend to discard theatrical drama, lofty subjects and classical forms in favor of commonplace themes.
representations of the spiritual universe that inspired the medieval mind no longer served the purposes of increasingly secular societies, their places were taken by paintings and graphic works that portrayed actuality with greater verisimilitude.
a bstraction and abstract art - Imagery which departs from representational accuracy, to a variable range of possible degrees, for some reason other than verisimilitude .
Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive.
Verisimilitude is the quality of having the appearance of truth or reality.
A new verisimilitude in depicting reality became possible with the adoption of oil painting, whose invention was traditionally, but erroneously, ...
If one insists on judging an art work on the basis of the virtuosity of the objective representation the verisimilitude of the illusion and thinks he sees in the objective representation itself a symbol of the inducing emotion, ...
in Muratori's Rerum Italicarum Scriptores (xxv. 296), quoted by Vasari, it is stated that he produced wonderfully painted pictures, which were exhibited by him in some sort of small closed box through a very small aperture, with great verisimilitude.
The development of one-point perspective in the Renaissance advanced illusionist technique immeasurably. It was highly developed in the baroque period; Caravaggio's bowls of fruit included insects to enhance verisimilitude.
the Franciscans, who renounced their possessions to preach in villages and towns as Christ had done, stimulated interest in the human life of holy figures. Artists sought to capture the world of everyday experience with greater verisimilitude, ...
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