[pik-tawr-ee-uh-liz-uh
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| 1. | Fine Arts. the creation or use of pictures or visual images, esp. of recognizable or realistic representations. |
| 2. | 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. |