verists

(noun)

the artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature; a form of realism. The word comes from Latin verus (true).

Related Terms

  • cartoon
  • Max Beckmann
  • New Objectivity

Examples of verists in the following topics:

  • Neue Sachlichkeit

    • The verists' vehement form of realism emphasized the ugly and sordid.
    • George Grosz and Otto Dix are considered the most important of the verists.
    • Other verists, like Christian Schad, depicted reality with a clinical precision, which suggested both an empirical detachment and intimate knowledge of the subject.
    • Max Beckmann, who is sometimes called an expressionist although he never considered himself part of any movement, was considered to be a verist and the most important artist of Neue Sachlichkeit.
    • Compared to the verists, the classicists more clearly exemplify the "return to order" that arose in the arts throughout Europe.
  • Roman Sculpture under the Republic

    • Roman portraiture during the Republic is identified by its considerable realism, known as veristic portraiture.
    • Veristic images often show their male subjects with receding hairlines, deep winkles, and even with warts.
    • The use of veristic portraiture began to diminish in the first century BCE.
    • The portraits of Julius Caesar are more veristic than those of Pompey.
    • Veristic portraiture of an Old Man.
  • Art and Literature in the Roman Republic

    • Roman portraiture during the Republic is identified by its considerable realism, known as veristic portraiture.
    • Veristic images often show their male subject with receding hairlines, deep winkles, and even with warts.
    • The use of veristic portraiture began to diminish during the Late Republic in the first century BCE.
    • The portraits of Pompey the Great were neither fully idealized, nor were they created in the same veristic style of Republican senators.
    • Veristic portraiture of an Old Man.
  • Moche

    • Traditional North Coast Peruvian ceramic art uses a limited palette, relying primarily on red and white, fineline painting, fully modeled clay, veristic figures, and stirrup spouts.
  • Sculpture during the Decline of the Roman Empire

    • Trajan Decius's portrait at first seems to take its artistic style from Republican veristic portraiture, but a closer look reveals something else.
  • Wood Sculpture in the Northern Renaissance

    • Here, the figure of the interred is depicted with veristic "warts-and-all" realism, shown in his gaunt cheeks and double chin.
  • Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

    • Abandoning the veristic style of the Republican period, his portraits always showed him as an idealized young man.
  • Architecture during the Severan Dynasty

    • His portraits show him as old, but fit and without the winkles of wisdom seen in Republican veristic portraiture.
  • Etruscan Art under the Influence of the Romans

    • Aule Metele dresses as a Roman magistrate, and his face is a cross between Hellenistic and Roman veristic portraiture.
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