Subrealism

Quick meaning: Subrealism is a noun meaning (art) An artistic movement that seeks to explore the basis of perception.

Meaning

(art) An artistic movement that seeks to explore the basis of perception.

More Meanings

1. (art) The artistic exploration of perverse and unpleasant subject matter.
2. An attitude toward life that lacks genuine engagement or meaning.

Example Sentences

The infection of Surrealism (subrealism) in the painter's and sculptor's art naturally found its way into the practice of the most universal of the arts.

Give up surrealism that only nourishes subrealism; the two of them, along with the so-called "natural," have got a dubious stench of urinals and churches.

Whereas surrealism sought to transcend reality from above, 'subrealism' sought to 'dive through the bottom of reality.' The three artists' activities in Shimomaruko were based on this idea.

But as the development of cubism and other tendencies shows, contemporary art tends to slip away into antirealist abstraction, subrealism and subjectivist creationism, obeying no laws but its own.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include irrealism, unrealism, hyperreality, semirealism, neosurrealism, surrealism.

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