Pseudorealism

Quick meaning: Pseudorealism is a noun meaning A dramatic or artistic technique in which an altered view of reality is presented as being real.

Meaning

A dramatic or artistic technique in which an altered view of reality is presented as being real.

Example Sentences

His advice to the young artist is to strive for triumphant expression through the masquerade of pseudorealism in the suave juxtaposition of plane upon counterplane, also to eat freely of ice cream and spinach that the hungry soul may not starve in its age-long search for dynamic symmetry.

The quarrel over realism in art stems from a misunderstanding, from a confusion between the aesthetic and the psychological; between true realism, the need that is to give significant expression to the world both concretely and in its essence, and the pseudorealism of a deception aimed at fooling the eye (or for that matter the mind); a pseudorealism content in other words with illusory appearances.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pseudoreality, hyperreality, hyperrealism, superrealism, irrealism, realism.

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