1) Artistic technique 2) Objective art 3) Warts and all style 
artistic preference of the everyday to the legendary
verism, verist, veristic Strict realism or naturalism in art and literature.
From Italian term verismo, meaning realism in its sense of gritty subject matter. Was originally applied around 1900 to the violent melodramatic operas of Puccini and Mascagni. In painting also has come to mean realism in its modern sense of representing objects with a high degree of truth to appearances. See realism, modern realism, naturalism. ...