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What does illusionism mean?

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Noun
  1. The performance of magic tricks.
  2. The theory of dealing with illusions.
  3. The doctrine that the material world is an illusion.
  4. The use of illusionary effects in sculpture and art.
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Shanta Rao also speaks of the misunderstanding of the fatal illusionism of the image and its desire to conjure up threats.
Other paintings oscillate between illusionism and a more expressionistic style of depiction.
What we are blessedly free from is the red-plush Wellsian illusionism, and the click of Mr. Bennett's cash-register finish.
Movement is the agent Jakop Ahlbom uses to blend music, acrobatics, dance, illusionism, slapstick and theatrical effect into one.
This illusionism is contradicted by brushwork highlighting the front picture plane or establishing ambiguous layers of space lying beyond.
George Maciunas has emphasized the importance of their work, expounding a theory against representationalism in art, semiotics, illusionism, and abstraction.

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