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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.
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- pic·tori·al·ist noun
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Origin of pictorialism1
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