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PRONUNCIATION OF PICTORIALISM

pictorialism  [pɪkˈtɔːrɪəlɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PICTORIALISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pictorialism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PICTORIALISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pictorialism

Pictorialism

Pictorialism is the name given to an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of "creating" an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus, is printed in one or more colors other than black-and-white and may have visible brush strokes or other manipulation of the surface. For the pictorialist, a photograph, like a painting, drawing or engraving, was a way of projecting an emotional intent into the viewer's realm of imagination. Pictorialism as a movement thrived from about 1885 to 1915, although it was still being promoted by some as late as the 1940s. It began in response to claims that a photograph was nothing more than a simple record of reality, and transformed into an international movement to advance the status of all photography as a true art form.

Definition of pictorialism in the English dictionary

The definition of pictorialism in the dictionary is a movement in photography that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th century and whose aim was that photography should be more artistic and should imitate the paintings of the time.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PICTORIALISM


anti-imperialism
ˌæntɪɪmˈpɪərɪəlɪzəm
antimaterialism
ˌæntɪməˈtɪərɪəlɪzəm
antirealism
ˌæntɪˈrɪəlɪzəm
bestialism
ˈbɛstɪəlɪzəm
ceremonialism
ˌserɪˈməʊnɪəlɪzəm
collegialism
kəˈliːdʒɪəlɪzəm
corporealism
kɔːˈpɔːrɪəlɪzəm
curialism
ˈkjʊərɪəlɪzəm
exceptionalism
ɪkˈsɛpʃənəlɪzəm
factionalism
ˈfækʃənəlɪzəm
herbalism
ˈhɜːbəlɪzəm
hyperrealism
ˌhaɪpəˈrɪəlɪzəm
loyalism
ˈlɔɪəlɪzəm
parochialism
pəˈrəʊkɪəlɪzəm
patrialism
ˈpeɪtrɪəlɪzəm
polynomialism
ˌpɒlɪˈnəʊmɪəlɪzəm
primordialism
praɪˈmɔːdɪəlɪzəm
proverbialism
prəˈvɜːbɪəlɪzəm
royalism
ˈrɔɪəlɪzəm
territorialism
ˌtɛrɪˈtɔːrɪəlɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PICTORIALISM

pictogram
pictograph
pictographic
pictography
Pictor
pictorial
pictorialise
pictorialist
pictorialize
pictorially
pictorialness
pictorical
pictorically
Pictoris
pictural
picture
picture book
picture card
picture desk
picture editor

WORDS THAT END LIKE PICTORIALISM

brutalism
capitalism
citizen journalism
colonialism
formalism
imperialism
individualism
journalism
liberalism
literalism
materialism
metabolism
minimalism
nationalism
Orientalism
photojournalism
professionalism
realism
socialism
surrealism
vandalism

Synonyms and antonyms of pictorialism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pictorialism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PICTORIALISM

Find out the translation of pictorialism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pictorialism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pictorialism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

画意
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pictorialismo
570 millions of speakers

English

pictorialism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pictorialism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pictorialism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пикториализм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pictorialismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pictorialism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

pictorialisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bergambar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Pictorialismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ピクトリアリズム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pictorialism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pictorialism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pictorialism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pictorialism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चित्रमयता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Resimsellik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pittorialismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pikturalizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

пікторіалізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pictorialismul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πικτοριαλισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pictorialism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pictorialism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pictorialism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pictorialism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PICTORIALISM»

The term «pictorialism» is normally little used and occupies the 129.032 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PICTORIALISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pictorialism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pictorialism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pictorialism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PICTORIALISM»

Discover the use of pictorialism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pictorialism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pictorialism & Other Photographic Techniques
The book guides you step by step in each technique and offers suggestions to carry on with these photography themes as well as offering you some advice in submitting your images to commercial entities.
Luis E. Gonzalez, 2012
2
Pictorialism into modernism: the Clarence H. White School of ...
Accompanies an exhibition exploring the design, composition, and technique characteristic of the school
Clarence H. White, Marianne Fulton, Bonnie Yochelson, 1996
3
"Contact"---Mysteries that Matter: Thoreau's Complex ...
Henry David Thoreau's pictorial writing made use of various modes of the picturesque, including the wilderness sublime, the ideal picturesque, and the grotesque.
Theron Lyle Francis, 2007
4
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945
A lavish retrospective of the pictorialist movement shares essays that explore its contributors' experimentations with light effects, soft focus, and unusual camera angles, in a volume that showcases the works of such influential figures as ...
Alison Nordström, Thomas Padon, J. Luca Ackerman, 2011
5
Theatre to cinema: stage pictorialism and the early feature film
This is the first book-lenght study of the relations between early cinema and nineteenth-century theatre for nearly fifty years.
Ben Brewster, Lea Jacobs, 1997
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The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania ...
Pictorialism. Versus. Naturalism. The influx of thousands of new amateurs at the close of the nineteenth century and the accompanying expansion of amateur clubs, societies and organizations, produced great unrest among amateur writers  ...
Jay Ruby
7
The visual arts, pictorialism, and the novel
the process of viewing a work of art, and becomes an apt metaphor, too, for the act of reading novels." A Dance to the Music of Time ranges the continuum of ways to use the visual arts and pictorialism with stunning virtuosity, coiling and ...
‎1985
8
Spenser and Literary Pictorialism
Focusing, framing, scanning-the language of film-and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by the author to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature.
John B. Bender, 1972
9
Articulate Images: The Sister Arts from Hogarth to Tennyson
1. QUICK. POETIC. EYES. Another. Look. at. Literary. Pictorialism. Lawrence Lipking The sister arts have raised a family. In the more than twenty years since Jean Hagstrum published his germinal book, scholarship on the interrelations of the ...
Richard Wendorf, 1983
10
Pictorialism in California: Photographs, 1900-1940
This book contains one hundred photographs that illustrate the full range of the Pictorialist movement in Northern and in Southern California.
Michael Gregg Wilson, Dennis James Reed, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PICTORIALISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pictorialism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Prom 7: BBCSO/Davis/Simpson review - Hugh Wood draws …
That vivid pictorialism balanced the pastel shades of Delius's In a Summer Garden with which Davis had begun, its lyrical spasms sounding ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Review: Stunning, comprehensive photography survey at Museum …
One of the most prominent practitioners was Julia Margaret Cameron. We see her theatricality and soft-lens approach, known as Pictorialism, ... «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»
3
Vintage Glamour In London's East End
Rather than the staid pictorialism on offer, people wanted to look like Rudolph Valentino, Norma Shearer or Clara Bow. Boris employed the ... «British Journal of Photography, Jul 15»
4
Harold Feinstein Dies at 84; Froze New York Moments in Black and …
... the photography writer for The New York Times, called Mr. Feinstein's work “the new pictorialism,” which he defined as a technically perfected ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
5
The Creation, St Paul's Cathedral, review: 'a sense of awe'
... ways an exemplary performance, entirely free of the piety that can spoil the piece and always alert instead to Haydn's marvellous pictorialism. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
6
Camera Work: The Weston Influence
I haven't touched on a crucial change Weston made early in his career, the conversion from Pictorialism to straight photography. Pictorialism ... «Firedoglake, Jun 15»
7
Dartmouth's Brian D. Miller on photography from NatGeo to …
Pictorialism is a great example of this. The pictures have nothing really to do with advancing photography's own characteristics, rather they ... «Chron.com, Jun 15»
8
Turning the camera on Father Browne
Initially he was enthused by pictorialism, a dominant influence from the 1890s until the 1930s, which persisted in Ireland for many years longer ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
9
Iconic 'Babe Bows Out' photo included in Maier summer exhibits
... to the museum last year, are examples of pictorialism, “an attempt to make the photograph appear like paintings or drawings,” Johnson says. «Lynchburg News and Advance, Jun 15»
10
Ritualized Oligarchy and the Plight of Innocence in Jonathan …
But Monaghan's sense of humor brings both cliche and stereotype as much into focus as subjects of his satirical pictorialism as he does the rich ... «Huffington Post, May 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Pictorialism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/pictorialism>. Apr 2024 ».
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