While other prolific photographers and artists of the time were turning to sharp focus aesthetics or the social documentary philosophy of pictorialism, which is characterized by soft focus, heavy manipulation in the darkroom, and unusual printing processes. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
The Met's house style was an extravagant pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [Peter J Hall obituary] Reference
The emphasis overall is on emotional veracity over ritual, naturalness over pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: Madame Butterfly Takes Wing in Santa Fe] Reference
An empirically well informed philosopher makes the cognitivist case against pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
I love the lighting in this film that recalls German expressionist silent film, pictorialism and later film noir. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
His triumphs, if any, lie in the realms of pictorialism (landscapes and seascapes) and epical ambition, but not in dramatic narrative or emotional projection. From Wordnik.com. [Blue-Eyed Cillian Murphy Is Delightful Hero(ine) in Pluto] Reference
So even a little print by Karl Struss, who pre-dated Steichen but was a pivotal figure in the transition from pictorialism to modernism, should be quite a catch. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-11-01] Reference
Initially, Weston had been a leading exponent of pictorialism – a kind of arty, romanticised style of portraiture that took its cue from the Victorian painters like Whistler. From Wordnik.com. [Edward Weston: the greatest American photographer of his generation?] Reference
In a subsequent paper, Pylyshyn (1978) introduced an important new argument against pictorialism, based on the concepts (which he introduced) of cognitive penetrability and impenetrability. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
For the tradition of literary pictorialism, Homer's set-piece certifies the ancient pedigree of ekphrasis and provides a model for poetic language in the service of pictorial representation. From Wordnik.com. [Ekphrasis and the Other] Reference
This fills out the argument in defense of quasi-pictorial theory given earlier (Tye, 1988) and gives an admirably clear philosophical account of the analog/propositional debate and the conceptual basis of quasi-pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
It developed not into an open ended inquiry into the nature and causes of imagery, but a manichean struggle between the computational pictorialism championed by Kosslyn and his supporters, and the computational description theory still most ably and enthusiastically represented by Pylyshyn. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
On the other hand, the data-structure theory (to which quasi-pictorialists retreat when literal pictorialism is challenged) is really just a version of Pylyshyn's own description theory, and, properly understood, has none of the special intuitive, explanatory, or predictive advantages that picture theorists claim for their views. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
Although Bodine favored pictorialism, his portfolio consists of. From Wordnik.com. [Examiner California Headlines] Reference
His early films are just extrordinarily atmospheric and moody, while avoiding slickness or pictorialism-for-its-own-sake. From Wordnik.com. [NAACHGAANA] Reference
Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen and Heinrich Kühn are representatives of pictorialism within the FOTOGRAFIS collection. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
This is the kind of movie that will inevitably be labeled an exercise in style, but an emotional gravity anchors the luscious pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
Edward S. Curtis has for scholars long occupied an uneasy middle ground between priceless documentary record and romanticized, artistic pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [The Online Photographer] Reference
The Ouverture à Quatre in F, which opened the program, is steeped in the influences of the French courtly style, with its stately dotted rhythms, ornate dance forms and elegant pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The exhibition FOTOGRAFIS collection updates positions in the history of photography, stylistic strategies of pictorialism and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) of yore will be placed side by side with recent works. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
The pictorialism, the kineticism, the ferocious visual intelligence displayed by Mann, cinematograhper Robert Krasker, and the rest of the film's production team lift this epic into a realm rarely touched by any of the arts. From Wordnik.com. [In The Company Of Glenn] Reference
Each of her colorful and delicate paintings depicts a superficial struggle between warriors, but just below the surface, a deeper struggle between colors, Eastern and Western influences, as well as between abstraction and pictorialism, plays out. From Wordnik.com. [Cool Hunting] Reference
When photography began to employ painterly effects in the manner of impressionism, the two media of painting and photography became closer: Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen and Heinrich Kühn represent pictorialism in the FOTOGRAFIS collection. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
Persons is new to the film and festival world, where the pic has landed at small events before an under-the-radar Slamdance appearance -- the work combines pictorialism and impressionist imagery with a lovely prose-poem text that rewards repeated viewings. From Wordnik.com. [Variety.com] Reference
Compared with Hurrell’s later portraits, these soft-focus photographs look like sentimental pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [Starlight and Shadow] Reference
“pictorialism” developed from being an occasional rhetorical device into almost the dominating matter of a poem. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Steichen’s photograph has elements of turn-of-the-century pictorialism (moody and delicate, the subject seeming to peer from the darkness, as if from jungle foliage), yet it also projects modernist boldness, with its pin-sharp precision and graphic severity. From Wordnik.com. [The Faces of Vanity Fair] Reference
1999) that neuroscientific evidence suports pictorialism. From Wordnik.com. [His Name Was Do Re Mi] Reference
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