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Objective art
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verism
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Verism is the artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature; it is a form of realism. The word comes from Latin verus (true).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"the theory that art and literature should strictly reproduce truth," 1892, from Italian verismo , from vero "truth," from Latin verus (see very ) + -ismo , Italian form of -ism .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context arts literature English) Presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary. 2 (context arts English) A movement in the late 19th century, related to realism
Usage examples of verism.
As for the object that the homely young ladies neglected and the pretty ones rendered with carnal verism, they, with their masculine intellects, saw it as two cubes of like size, surmounted by an elongated rectangular block: Priapus in terms of solid geometry.