naturalism
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Once considered the product of two distinct artists, “Boy With a Basket of Fruit” speaks to the intensity of Caravaggio’s spectacular, sui generis vision of what Italian naturalism would become in his hands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The other is biological naturalism, which argues the opposite.
From Science Daily • Dec. 24, 2025
Perhaps made in Crete, the idealized naturalism of a battle scene rendered in shallow three-dimensional space threw a stylistic monkey-wrench into our established understanding of Greek culture 3,500 years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
But Mr. Sachs also takes an overarching, cinematic approach that gently departs from the movie’s moment-to-moment naturalism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
All my life had shaped me for the realism, the naturalism of the modern novel, and I could not read enough of them.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing naturalism
Power Suffix: -ism
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