veristic
/vɪəˈrɪstɪk
/adjective
(Of art or literature) extremely or strictly naturalistic: veristic cast-wax or terracotta portrait masks...
- Vespasian's images hark back to harsh styles of veristic portraiture of the late Republic.
- Shorr today, more than ever before, is stressing artificiality over realism, the virtual over the veristic, intellection over intuition.
- Lastman, especially, was admired for his clear narratives and classicizing, archaeologically veristic settings, and his attentive reading of classical sources.
Derivatives
verism
- He hauntingly combined the solid verism of Lombard painting with the glowing colours of Giorgione and Titian.
- At the same time, the striking verism of bodily gesture, her ability to suggest movement and animation, and her use of serial imagery produce a quasi-cinematic effect.
verist
- Thus, paradoxically, does a verist film like La Strada become cinema at its transcendent best, rich in imagination, profound in spirit, and pure in tone.
- These images tell us immediately that we are in the hands, not of a mere kitchen-sink realist, but of a poetic verist who is as concerned to evoke as to document.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Latin verum (neuter) 'true' or Italian vero 'true' + -ist + -ic.