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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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Other paintings oscillate between illusionism and a more expressionistic style of depiction.
Movement is the agent Jakop Ahlbom uses to blend music, acrobatics, dance, illusionism, slapstick and theatrical effect into one.
All are frontally oriented works that expose conventions of illusionism by carrying them off of the wall into real space.
Arguably illusionism was a taste diverted into the diorama, and thence ultimately into the cinema.
What we are blessedly free from is the red-plush Wellsian illusionism, and the click of Mr. Bennett's cash-register finish.
Shanta Rao also speaks of the misunderstanding of the fatal illusionism of the image and its desire to conjure up threats.

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