pictorialism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English pictorial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English pictorialism From pictorial + -ism.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) A school of artistic photography that emphasized using photography to mimic certain styles of contemporary painting, that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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(countable, uncountable) Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions.
The black-and-white portraits and landscapes […] fall somewhere between photojournalism and pictorialism.
2007 December 21, Karen Rosenberg, “In Bhutan, Sacred Sights Amid the Clouds”, in New York Times:
- (countable, uncountable) The theory that mental imagery is visual rather than based on language-like description.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pictorialisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |