Not representing something in way that is accurate and true to life.
a stylized, non-realistic image
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He looks back and realises the images on the wall that dictated our perception of reality are non-realistic.
Thus even non-realistic depictions that do not purport to represent faithfully events and persons still tend to make the audience feel that they have experienced history.
He did several set designs for the left-wing Unity Theatre, including productions of Shaw's The Applecart, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Arthur Miller's The Crucible, the last employing a non-realistic design separating the stage with cheesecloth screens.
You know how sometimes SF/Fantasy is referred to as "speculative fiction", in an attempt to encompass all types of non-realistic fiction, and also to avoid the stigma of genrefication?
"It is the most neglected of the arts," Lal agreed, "because ours is a realistic age and dance is non-realistic."
The amount of information is not altered, for instance, by switching from the realistic mode of representation of conventional perspective to the non-realistic mode of, say, reverse perspective.
He quotes me in this book as claiming that the Irish literary tradition is one of 'largely non-realistic works', whereas what I actually wrote was 'non-realist'.
It just happened that non-realistic art got media attention because the media focuses on the shocking and controversial.
As a taste for non-realistic forms of fiction established itself, Gothic settings and character-types reappeared regularly as part of the repertoire of serious fiction.
Some commentators felt that the symphony was ' non-realistic ' and attacked its pessimism.