Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artistic and literary movement characterized by extreme realism.
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- noun
Art intended to portrayreality as accurately as possible.
Etymologies
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Examples
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..& since you took that art course from the back of the matchbook cover, wow...i'm thinkin' the guys at the school of 'superrealism' are more than a little concerned...
The Party's Over: Derailed by the Economy BikeSnobNYC 2008
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The cherries eaten, the sangria gone, a cup of coffee to boost us on the long subway-ride out to Brooklyn, and the superrealism was forgotten to the pain of my blisters.
thinking with my fingers Torill 2001
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Now I make that punishment physical, my shoes stained from the realism of broken blisters; the thought of superrealism lost.
thinking with my fingers Torill 2001
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And it's him, quickly, hurriedly telling me, sharing a snippet bringing up the memory of that warm, fun evening with Yoko: "I just wanted to tell you, superrealism is a word now."
thinking with my fingers Torill 2001
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Now I make that punishment physical, my shoes stained from the realism of broken blisters; the thought of superrealism lost.
Archive 2001-10-01 Torill 2001
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The cherries eaten, the sangria gone, a cup of coffee to boost us on the long subway-ride out to Brooklyn, and the superrealism was forgotten to the pain of my blisters.
Archive 2001-10-01 Torill 2001
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And it's him, quickly, hurriedly telling me, sharing a snippet bringing up the memory of that warm, fun evening with Yoko: "I just wanted to tell you, superrealism is a word now."
Archive 2001-10-01 Torill 2001
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Keith was into superrealism, and his studio looked like Doctor Frankenstein's workshop.
Children Of The Night Lackey, Mercedes 1990
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The paintings she produced, including "Lytle's Garage," the one selected for the CVG show, are grounded in superrealism, also known as hyper-realism or photorealism.
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