Intimist

Quick meaning: Intimist is a noun meaning A painter or writer whose art is in the intimism genre.

Meaning

A painter or writer whose art is in the intimism genre.

More Meanings

1. (art) Pertaining to or characteristic of the intimism genre; focussed on everyday domestic matters.
2. (film, literature) Introspective; concerned with inner life and psychological experiences.

Example Sentences

For Barma, the close-up is an essential device to turn Macbeth into an intimist piece, but also to enhance realism and break away from the stage experience.

Now its form is a psychological/intimist film which is less perceivable as a genre because it slips over so many (i.e., thrillers, adventure, historical reconstruction, etc.).

For this reason, in the numerous intimist portraits he painted in the sixties, particularly those of his wife Estrella, in which he worked from life, he attached so much importance to optical reality and mimetic perfection, to that “humanist certainty” that lies at the heart of all classicist stances.

It is ubiquitous throughout the occasional pieces and intimist work. The body, real, factual, everyday, with a familiarity characteristic of TV or of home movies, but suddenly, also, the body dramatized to the extreme, prey to creative anguish, experiencing its specific fiction, its daily sacrifice, the crucifixion of image and sound.

Word Forms

• intimists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include intimism, intimatopia, imagist, imaginist, expressionism, intuiter.

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