Crossword clues for colorism
colorism
Wiktionary
n. 1 Prejudice or bias against persons on the basis of their skin color or complexion, often among persons of the same racial identification. 2 A style of painting characterised by the use of intense color.
Usage examples of "colorism".
His master, on the other hand, scrutinized the murals carefully, and blessed his companions with a running commentary on the Mission of Art, replete with many citations from the ancients, the essential thrust of which was that Paul Gauphin was an arrant alphabetarian, a nugatory neophyte, a coarse catechumen, a posturing parvenu who thought to conceal his blatant ignorance of the classic methods of proportion, line, perspective and portraiture by his extravagant colorism, the which was nothing but a maneuver to dupe his patrons by passing off crudity as primitivism.