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Four Trajectories out of Realism

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1. Imitative (creation of mimetic illusion)

2. Deformative (painterly motion in Bacon)

3. Transformative (paranoiac-criticism, metamorphic images, based in perceptual recognition)

4. Simulation (where the image becomes the thing imaged)