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verism , artistic style in which photographic realism is combined with hallucinatory or ironic images. Its practitioners, including Salvador Dalí and Yves Tanguy , often make use of Renaissance concepts of perspective and various academic conventions. The style is also termed veristic surrealism .

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verism. An extreme form of realism, in which the artist makes it his aim to reproduce with rigid truthfulness the exact appearance of his subject, repudiating all imaginative interpretation. The term has been applied, for example, to certain Roman portrait sculptures. In a different sense, the term ‘Veristic Surrealism’ is sometimes applied to pictures that claim to reproduce hallucination in exact and unselective detail; Dalí is the best-known exponent of works of this type.

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