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A minimalist style of visual art.
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(art, music, dance) Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.
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An abstraction; an abstract term; that which is abstract.
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Art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational way.
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(less common) Alternative form of Abstract Expressionism [An American genre of modern art that used improvised techniques, such as sinuous linearity, to generate highly abstract forms while allowing the artist spontaneity.]
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(art) An artist who works within the genre of Abstract Expressionism.
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(metaphysics) An idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure.
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Words that represent concepts rather than physical things
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(grammar) A noun that denotes an idea, emotion, feeling, quality, generalization, representation or other abstract or intangible concept, as opposed to a concrete item, or a physical object.
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A term expressing an abstract idea, such as beauty, whiteness, or roundness, without indicating any object in which it exists.
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One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents.
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The result of abstractification, making something abstract.
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The process of abstractifying or achieving abstracticism.
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Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
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Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.
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The property of being abstractive.
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(philosophy, usually in the plural) Something which is abstract or exists abstractly.
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Dealing with absurdism.
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Of, or relating to absurdism.
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The attribution of insights, ideas or analogies absent from original works.
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(art, rare) Aleatoricism.
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(art) The non-differential treatment of the surface of a two-dimensional artwork such as a painting, giving it a sense of uniformity and a lack of focus.
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(art) An early 20th century movement in painting and writing, emerging from the Russian avant-garde, which made use of antirational or nonsensical elements.
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(derogatory) The American school of imagist poetry influenced by Amy Lowell (1874–1925).
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One who reasons from analogy, or represents by an analogy.
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(philosophy) According to Sartre, an equivalent of perception (such as a painting or a mental image) that is necessary for the process of imagination to take place.
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One who recounts anecdotes, or uses them instead of experimental evidence in a field of study.
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(rhetoric) A description or definition contrary to that which is given by the opposing party.
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Art that is usually exhibited and delivered in a conventional context but that makes fun of serious art or the artistic establishment or challenges the nature of art.
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(art) A form that defies the usual conventions of artistic forms.
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The quality of being antireal.
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(art) Having some philosophical or political content, rather than merely being designed to please the eye.
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(theology, Biblical studies) Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"
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(art, slogan) Art with no function; whose only purpose is beauty.
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(art) A radical Italian modern art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, making use of worthless or common materials such as earth or newspaper, in the hope of subverting the commercialization of art.
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(philosophy, theology) Reflecting one or more aspects, usually of a unified whole, as opposed to a heterogenous entity composed of qualitatively different parts.
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Realist or realistic, particularly capturing small details of everyday objects.
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(art) A style in painting in which details are strictly subordinated to the harmony of the whole composition.
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(art) A short-lived German pop art movement of the 1960s.
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The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.
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(film) A style of cinema that appears to be realistic, showing ordinary people in ordinary situations speaking and acting naturally.
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(art) A school of postimpressionist painting
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(art) The view that a work of art is valuable if it contributes to knowledge.
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(art) A large area of flat, solid color, characteristic of a school of modernist abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Using or relating to comparatism.
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An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
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A form of illustration whose main goal is to convey a visual representation of a concept.
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Alternative form of conceptismo [(literature) A 16th- and 17th-century literary movement in Spain associated with Francisco de Quevedo and characterized by a rapid rhythm, directness, wordplay, and witty metaphors.]
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A genre of art in which the transmission of ideas is more important than the creation of an art object
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The art movement towards conceptual art.
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(art) An abstractionist painting movement that evolved in the 1930s.
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Relating to, or characteristic of concretism or concretists
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(art) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
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(art) A form of impersonal, geometric abstract art.
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A visual art style which emerged in the late 2010s, influenced by Big Tech art and mobile app design, and characterized by flat, simplified, geometric shapes in bright solid colours.
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(metaphysics) An alternative to standard possible worlds semantics in which an individual can exist in only one world, while other possible worlds contain (different) counterparts to that individual, and in which the modality operators (necessity, possibility) are replaced by quantifiers over possible worlds.
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Of, pertaining to, or in the style of cubism.
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(art, historical) A Russian school of painting and sculpture, influenced by cubism and Italian futurism.
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(art) A movement that emphasizes traditional aesthetics and formal practices.
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(art) The representation of objects anew, in a way that we do not recognize, or that changes our reading of them.
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Relating to depictivism
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(psychology) The controversial hypothesis that people suffering from depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality than those who do not have it.
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(psychiatry, dated) Not in accordance with reality.
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Obsolete form of didactic. [Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.]
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A North American literary movement that depicts seamy or mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language.
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A supposed art movement created as a hoax in 1924 in reaction to an art establishment perceived as overvaluing inferior artworks.
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Of or relating to divisionism (art style).
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(art) A style of abstract sculpture that suggests organic forms.
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Moment of theoretical suspension of disbelief.
adj
Relating to evaluation; serving to evaluate.
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(art) An approach to creating artworks by which the artist aims to evoke certain ideas in the audience.
adj
Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism
adj
Of or pertaining to fauvism.
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Of or pertaining to the art style of fauvism.
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(music) The tendency to elevate formal above expressive value in music, as in serialism.
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An over-reliance on, or adherence to formulae
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An American antiestablishment art movement opposing Abstract Expressionism.
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(art, historical) The artistic style of an informal group or school of young British sculptors in the years after the Second World War, characterized by angular, jagged forms thought to reflect post-war angst and guilt.
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(rare) Any religion inspired by popular culture, especially one that imitates a work of fiction.
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Of or pertaining to philosophical hyperreality; perceivable as real by consciousness, though potentially unreal.
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A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations
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(art) An artist of the school of hyperrealism.
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One who proposes or supports a hypothesis.
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A person who hypothesizes.
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(literature) A minimalist literary approach used by Ernest Hemingway, according to which the writer should omit as much as possible, leaving the reader to infer it.
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(philosophy) An abstract archetype of a given thing, compared to which real-life examples are seen as imperfect approximations; pure essence, as opposed to actual examples.
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(art) A form of art based on small individual ideas rather than generic aesthetic, material and disciplinary concerns.
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Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
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The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
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Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.
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The representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show their most important characteristics; the study of the ideal.
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(sociology) A fundamental unit of ideology.
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(art) Being a form of symbolic art created by mental modification of natural artistic subjects.
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The use of illusionary effects in sculpture and art.
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(sociology) The set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society through which people imagine their social whole.
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(poetry) A Russian avant-garde poetic movement, founded in 1918, whose members created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images.
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Alternative form of imagism [(poetry) A form of poetry utilising precise imagery and clear language.]
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(art) A follower of any of the various artistic schools known as imagism
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(music) a style that avoided traditional harmony, and sought to invoke the impressions of the composer
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One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism.
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Pertaining to or characterized by impressionism.
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An art movement based on abstract and gestural tendencies rather than definite form.
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A literary movement of the 1970s, founded in Mexico by poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño.
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The theory that the meaning of any text is determined by the intentions of its author, whether stated or not.
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Socratic irony: ignorance feigned for the purpose of confounding or provoking an antagonist.
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(grammar, of a verb) inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is not a fact.
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(grammar) A category of grammatical moods that indicate that a certain situation or action is not known to happen, or have happened, as the speaker is talking.
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(art) A style that features an estrangement from our generally accepted sense of reality.
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In the style of irrealism.
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(art, nonce word) Represented in such a way as to show important characteristics, rather than in a realistic or literal manner; stylized; abstract.
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(software engineering) An abstraction that undesirably exposes details and limitations of its underlying implementation.
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(art) The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.
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A literary style or genre that combines naturalistic details and narrative with surreal or dreamlike elements.
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One who creates works in the style of magic realism.
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A style of film that has an enigmatic narrative structure coupled with a dreamlike uncertainty over what is real and what is imagined.
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A minor movement in British poetry in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a kind of surrealism in which familiar things are described in unfamiliar ways.
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A direction in Russian poetry and art that was born in the 1970s to the 1980s, synonymous to metaconscience, which means beyond psychological consciousness, beyond a subjective psychological polarized view of reality.
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Characteristic of, or related to metarealism, a direction in Russian poetry and art.
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That goes beyond reality or psychological consciousness.
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The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
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(art, literature) One who takes a mimetic approach; a proponent of mimesis.
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(art) Characterised by the use of simple form or structures.
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(art) A style of art that emphasises extreme simplicity of form.
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Exhibiting or relating to minimalism.
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(art) Any of very many genres of art from the late 19th to the mid 20th centuries, especially those forms that move away from a traditional narrative towards experimentation and conceptual art.
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(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.
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(ethics) The specific rule that one should do no intentional harm, often considered the bare minimum required for ethical behavior.
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(ethics) Persuasion brought to bear by appeals to someone's moral sense or ethics.
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(countable, often derogatory) A maxim or saying believed by the speaker to embody a moral truth; an instance of moralizing.
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A moralizing approach or attitude.
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(countable, archaic) A lesson or pronouncement which contains advice about proper behavior.
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a type of allegorical drama towards the end of the Middle Ages that demonstrates a moral theme such as a character's inner struggle to attain moral enlightenment or salvation
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The behaviour of one who moralizes.
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Obsolete spelling of moral [(of a narrative) The ethical significance or practical lesson.]
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(art) A simple, apparently childish style in art.
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(art) In a style resembling nature.
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(art) A movement in theatre, film, and literature that seeks to replicate a believable everyday reality, as opposed to such movements as romanticism or surrealism, in which subjects may receive highly symbolic or idealistic treatment.
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Of or pertaining to naïve realism.
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A digital art movement promoting storytelling through digital art.
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Alternative spelling of neoimpressionism [A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition.]
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(art) A school of art of the 1980s and 1990s, characterised by appropriation and the rejection of traditional artistic methods and values, that derives from the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s.
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(art) A later, revived form of cubism
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A genre of French impressionist art that used pointillism to achieve a more formal composition.
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An artist working in neoimpressionism.
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(art) A style of abstract painting, developed by Piet Mondrian, that used only vertical and horizontal lines with the spaces filled in black, white, grey, and primary colours
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(fine arts) A Russian art movement fusing elements of Cézanne, cubism and futurism with traditional Russian folk art.
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(art) Of or pertaining to the neorealism movement in art, which emerged in Britain around 1914
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A substitute for reality.
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An art movement based on the complex imagery of dreams and subconscious visions.
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An artist of the neosurrealism movement.
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An anti-expressionist artistic movement of the first half of the twentieth century that espoused direct, unadorned, matter-of-fact aesthetics.
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(art) A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.
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A deliberately fictitious entry in an encyclopedia or academic work, generally identifiable as false, usually included to brand the intellectual property so copies can be identified.
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(art) Quality of not being realistic.
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A place, situation, etc. that is not reality.
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(art) A nonrepresentational approach to art.
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The use of a first-person plural pronoun (such as we) instead of a first-person singular pronoun (such as I) to refer to oneself.
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A physical representation or manifestation of an abstract concept; especially, a symbolic artistic representation of a particular emotion, feeling etc.
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(epistemology) The principle of preferring the simplest of competing theories.
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(art) A genre of abstract art that uses geometric shapes and vivid colours to create optical illusions, such as an illusion of movement.
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The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors.
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(art) A minor Cubist art movement focusing on pure abstraction and bright colours.
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Alternative form of outsider art [(art) Art by untrained artists, outside of the institutional mainstream.]
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(philosophy) The paradox that (i) people have emotional responses to fictitious events, and (ii) one must believe that something truly exists in order to be emotionally moved by it, but (iii) nobody who considers an event to be fictitious can also believe it to be real.
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A participant in the art movement of paradoxism.
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One who makes fallacious arguments or draws illogical conclusions.
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An abstract idea that embodies a shared social worldview.
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A very realistic style in art in which a painting or drawing is virtually indistinguishable from a photograph.
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(computer graphics) Exhibiting photorealism.
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Alternative spelling of photo-realism [A very realistic style in art in which a painting or drawing is virtually indistinguishable from a photograph.]
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An artist who works in photorealism.
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(art) of or pertaining to photo-realism
adj
In the style of pictorialism.
adj
of, pertaining to, or in the style of pointillism
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A person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
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A painter of the style of postimpressionism.
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Moving away from an earlier painterly style; applied especially to an abstract art movement of the 1960s.
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(art) The doctrine or practice of a school of modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.
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A concept that cannot be defined in terms of other concepts. Also primitive notion
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alternative term for primitive concept [A concept that cannot be defined in terms of other concepts. Also primitive notion]
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Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms.
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(philosophy, epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
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Alternative form of pseudolegality [The appearance of legality of something that is not actually legal; The use of courts, police, or legal procedures to accomplish pseudolegal results.]
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false etymology; folk etymology
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(derogatory) Any work claiming to be a historical account without using established historiographical methods, especially one using personal speculation or questionable evidence without necessary care or concern for the truth.
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(computing, rare) A false namespace achieved by other means.
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A dramatic technique in which an altered view of reality is presented as being real.
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Exhibiting pseudorealism.
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An apparent reality that is in fact a delusion.
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(art) The principles, or style of painting introduced by the Italian painter Raphael
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Objects from real life or from the real world, as opposed to theoretical constructs or fabricated examples.
adj
(grammar) Of or relating to the realis mood.
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(art, literature) An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.
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An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
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(literally) An environment which alters one's perception of reality.
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(art) A minimalist movement in abstract painting and sculpture from the 1950s onwards.
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Of or pertaining to representation or to representationalism.
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(art) An artist who aims to produces realistic depictions.
adj
Of or pertaining to representationalism (in either art or philosophy).
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A semirealistic approach in art, philosophy, etc.; partial realism.
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An art movement of the 1980s, somewhat akin to pop art.
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One who designs or uses a simulation.
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An art and film movement that critically portrays the everyday lives of the working class and the poor.
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(art) A Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.
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(obsolete, rare) One who commits a solecism.
adj
Pertaining to, or involving, a solecism; incorrect.
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Alternative form of solecism [An erroneous or improper usage.]
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A type of modern art in which elements of colour, sound, space, movement, and time are synthesized.
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Visual art created in public space and executed outside of the context of traditional art venues.
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Simplified representation; reduction to a pattern or conventional form; abstraction; decorative generalization.
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(literary criticism) The relationship to reality of what is depicted in a given fictional work.
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(art) A postmodern art movement, founded by Takashi Murakami, influenced by manga, anime, and Japanese consumer culture.
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(philosophy) The emergent actual occasion from which value is abstracted.
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Art intended to portray reality as accurately as possible.
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An artist working in the style of superrealism.
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(countable) Anything that is superreal.
adj
Of or pertaining to the art movement Suprematism.
adj
Of or pertaining to Suprematism; suprematist.
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That which is surreal; a surreal entity, event or other fact.
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People's acceptance, for the sake of appreciation of art (including literature and the like), of what they know to be a nonfactual premise of the work of art.
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(art) A style of postimpressionism that aims to synthesize varioous elements: the outward appearance of the thing depicted, the artist's feelings about it, and aesthetic considerations.
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The reduction of facts or principles to a system.
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An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience.
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The supposed reality conveyed by television.
adj
Of or suggesting the artistic style of tenebrism.
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A primarily European style of absurdist theatre of the late 1950s, focusing on existentialism and the breakdowns arising from a lack of meaning or purpose.
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someone who constructs theorems
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Of or relating to theory; abstract; not empirical.
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(obsolete) Theory, as opposed to practice.
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(uncountable) The development of something beyond its obvious and practical scope.
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Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
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(neologism, art) A movement in art characterized by its emphasis on the role of observer in interpreting the artist's representation of collective memories of man which are manifested in myths and legends.
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(science fiction) A literary mode that mixes the techniques of incorporating fantastic elements used in science fiction with the techniques of describing immediate perceptions from naturalistic realism.
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A writer in the genre of transrealism.
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Of or relating to transrealism.
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The opposite of realism.
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Unpractical character; visionariness.
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(philosophy) An intentionalist form of interpretation that seeks to capture the author's intention but not necessarily the author's possibly flawed understanding.
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Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
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(art) A style of art that juxtaposes figurative abstract paintings with written social commentary drawing from personal experiences.
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An artistic movement, from 19th-century Italian literature and opera, in which rural and everyday people and themes were treated in an often melodramatic manner
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Of or relating to the art movement called verism.
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Of or pertaining to vorticism.
adj
Of or pertaining to the art style of vorticism.
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(art) An artist who is part of the movement called zeroism; A artist whose works have no message or meaning.
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