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noun
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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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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noun
Any artistic use of photography to imitate painting, especially using pictorial conventions.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The theory that mental imagery is visual rather than based on language-like description.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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History
Etymology tree English pictorial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō 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.
