I would add the term 'illusionism' to this list to specifically refer to the simulation of visual experience light, color, and linear perspective. From Wordnik.com. [Realism and its Synonyms] Reference
The various offshoots of Kantian philosophy are incorrectly regarded as developments of idealism; it is more accurate to describe them as "illusionism" or. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
However, the theme of this work is not realism, but illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanoid Biology and Almacan] Reference
This striving often goes astray in self-assertion and illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 - Presentation Speech] Reference
At some points (e.g., p. 150) Rubin speaks of "abstract" versus "illusionism.". From Wordnik.com. [The D-S Expedition: Part I] Reference
And there is something more, the peculiar contribution to the baroque: painterly illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [NATURALISM IN ART] Reference
In keeping with this gender illusionism, Candy was both a work of art and the artist who created it. From Wordnik.com. [Caroline Hagood: New Documentary Tries to Solve the Riddle of Andy Warhol's Candy Darling] Reference
I began to want to create on a new illusionism by adopting a motif he had not used, by seeking an original image. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanoid Biology and Almacan] Reference
Such restless alternations are Miró's pattern, but at MoMA illusionism, of a kind, triumphs, at least for a while. From Wordnik.com. [Miró's Decade of Exploration] Reference
Stage illusionism-prestidigitation in the grand tradition of Kellar, Maskelyne, Houdini'the very best in the business!. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
The difference is that the new illusionism is characterized by a loosening of pictorial forms, and so is illusionistic in. From Wordnik.com. [NATURALISM IN ART] Reference
His pictures were expressed with illusionism, a technique in which human faces are drawn by the combination of various objects. From Wordnik.com. [Mechanoid Biology and Almacan] Reference
Confronted by these tours de force of illusionism, I kept thinking about Matisse's celebrated observation, "exactitude is not truth.". From Wordnik.com. [A Poet of the Commonplace] Reference
Within Surrealism he sees two basic styles: biomorphism, primarily in Arp, and spatial illusionism, principally in Magritte and Dali. From Wordnik.com. [The D-S Expedition: Part I] Reference
Lady Morgan's account as indicative of resistance — not just on the part of the viewer, but on the part of the Diorama itself — to illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject] Reference
This striving often goes astray in self-assertion and illusionism, But it is there, nevertheless, and is allied with something that is not merely human. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature - 1983] Reference
We note that paintings, no matter how potent their illusionism, assert the presence of their makers and the fact of being made of pigment on a flat surface. From Wordnik.com. [Bringing Devotion to Life] Reference
Dharinel once said that stage illusionism and true magic have this much in common'that the glamour only really works if the subject WANTS it to on some level. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond World's End]
Dharinel once said that stage illusionism and true magic have this much in common-that the glamour only really works if the subject WANTS it to on some level. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond World's End]
Moussavi stands for equal rights for women and decries Ahmadinejad's foreign policy as "adventurism, illusionism, exhibitionism, extremism and superficiality.". From Wordnik.com. [Paul Raushenbush: The Obama Effect in Iran and Lebanon - Role Model Instead of Straw Man] Reference
He said it was time to end a method of governing based on "adventurism, instability, posturing, illusionism, dishonesty, self-promotion, law-defying and superficiality.". From Wordnik.com. [Politics, American Style] Reference
His hobby was stage illusionism, and on occasion Eric had seen him pull off feats of sleight of hand that he wasn't sure he could duplicate even with the help of Bardic magic. From Wordnik.com. [Spirits White As Lightning]
With a studied quietude and an eye for illusionism, Ghirri documents the search for visual truth. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
The theater, reopened this year after restoration, is a 1920s gem - baroque not in idiom but in theatricality and illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The choice is between genuine diplomatic realism that could lead to some progress and illusionism that cheats both sides of their futures. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
California conurbation in a practice that ranges from multimedia chain-link sculpture to site-specific illusionism on the Santa Monica Freeway. From Wordnik.com. [artforum.com] Reference
The architectural vision has been essential to the illusionism of stage design, since Andrea Palladio first designed a purpose-built modern theater. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
But is something disconnected from the metaphysical illusionism of later (ideological) religions with their schemes of world conquest and empire formation. From Wordnik.com. [Darwiniana] Reference
No cartographic renderings of military campaigns, before or since, have achieved the superb illusionism and narrative authority of The Siege of La Rochelle. From Wordnik.com. Reference
On that logic, 3-D is part of an aesthetic evolution that has included the shift from medieval fixed-point perspective to illusionism in Renaissance painting. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Between the unreasonable extremes of hyper-skeptical illusionism on the one hand and unbending methodological materialism on the other lies the path of reason. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution News & Views] Reference
"Drawing and painting is particularly rich in a way to express ideas and the push and pull that happens between working with illusionism and actual form," Browne said. From Wordnik.com. [Arbiter Online] Reference
In other cases, the religious authority of an image resides in its convincing, sometimes exaggerated, lifelikeness, conveyed through artistic means such as realism or illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [Headlines - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick] Reference
Mucha’s artistic choices serve emotion rather than illusionism for its own sake. From Wordnik.com. [Mucha and Emotional Color] Reference
I’m no illusionism expert, but then that’s the point: neither is Mrs. Osbourne. From Wordnik.com. [July — 2009 — SUb] Reference
In a recent televised debate, Mousavi accused Ahmadinejad’s foreign policy of “adventurism, illusionism, exhibitionism, extremism, and superficiality.”. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Surveying The Terrain Of Iran’s Elections] Reference
2 Remember: They’re very experienced in their respective fields, but none of them have proven to have any authority in all things illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [July — 2009 — SUb] Reference
Also, illusionism. From Wordnik.com. [Realism and its Synonyms] Reference
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