VERISMO Italian, "realism." A type of Italian opera current in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Aiming at social and psychological realism, verismo operas depicted the lives of ordinary people and addressed contemporary themes.
The end of the Romantic era is marked in some areas by a new style of Realism, which affected literature, especially the novel and drama, painting, and even music, through Verismo opera.
Verism
extreme realism shown by Roman portrait sculpture and some surrealist art.
Vienna Secession
radical movement led by Gustav Klimt in an attempt to improve Austrian art, c.1897. It had strong links with Jugendstil and ART NOUVEAU.
Used generally to characterize the work of artists and poets of the last decade of the nineteenth century, who had rebelled against the verism of both the naturalists and the Impressionists.
 See also: Aesthetic, School, Movement, Realism, Roman
  
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