pseudorealism

Noun

pseudorealism (uncountable)

1. A dramatic or artistic technique in which an altered view of reality is presented as being real.
   • His advice to the young artist is to strive for triumphant expression through the masquerade of pseudorealism in the suave juxtaposition of plane upon counterplane, also to eat freely of ice cream and spinach that the hungry soul may not starve in its age-long search for dynamic symmetry.1932 February 19, Craddock, “Quis Vadit?”, in The Kentucky Kernel, volume 22, number 36, page 2
   • The quarrel over realism in art stems from a misunderstanding, from a confusion between the aesthetic and the psychological; between true realism, the need that is to give significant expression to the world both concretely and in its essence, and the pseudorealism of a deception aimed at fooling...1960, André Bazin, translated by Hugh Gray, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image”, in Film Quarterly, volume 13, number 4, translation of original in French, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 7