Pictorialism (or pictorialism - in the special literature you can find two spelling variations) was an aesthetic movement, whose adherents strove for a pictorial (pictorial, imitative painting) photographic image. In the works of pictorialist photographers, the influence of Austrian symbolism, English pre-Raphaelism, German art nouveau, French art deco and especially impressionism is noticeable, therefore pictorialism is sometimes […]
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