lifelikeness

Just as Chekhov’s stories, beneath their veneer of lifelikeness, have a boiled-down, biblical simplicity, Hopper’s interiors are shorn of detail.

It’s the kind of lifelikeness that could only come from showrunners steeped in Haredi society.

Moroni ratchets up the lifelikeness of “The Tailor.”

The essays here, on artists from Manet to the young New Yorker Avery Singer, propose that paintings convey “vilatistic fantasies,” or imagined impressions of their creators; interviews with Jutta Koether, Wade Guyton and Charline von Heyl further her argument for painting’s lifelikeness.

Lifelikeness, though important to Canova, was not the principal goal of the North Carolina statue.