Realism

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aesthetic concept art movement literary movement

Realism is a literary and artistic movement that focuses on depicting everyday life and ordinary people with truthful, unembellished detail.

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All labels observed (24)

Label	Occurrences
Realism canonical	390
American realism	119
American Realism	61
Russian realism	14
Naturalism	4
realism	4
American literary realism	3
French Realism	3
Georgian realism	3
Verism	2
verismo	2
American realist writers	1
American theatrical realism	1
British realism	1
Egyptian realism	1
English realism	1
German realism	1
Neorealism	1
Norwegian realism	1
Realism (art movement)	1
Realism (literature)	1
Realist painters	1
Realists	1
Victorian realism	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	aesthetic concept ⓘ art movement ⓘ literary movement ⓘ
aim	to critique social structures through depiction of everyday life ⓘ to represent life as it is perceived ⓘ
artForm	literature ⓘ opera ⓘ painting ⓘ photography ⓘ sculpture ⓘ theatre ⓘ
emergedAfter	Romanticism ⓘ
emphasizes	truthful representation ⓘ unembellished detail ⓘ
influenced	20th-century narrative fiction ⓘ Modernism ⓘ documentary photography ⓘ
influencedBy	Industrial Revolution ⓘ scientific positivism ⓘ social change in 19th-century Europe ⓘ
mainFocus	depiction of everyday life ⓘ ordinary people ⓘ
notableProponent	Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ George Eliot ⓘ Gustave Courbet ⓘ Honoré de Balzac ⓘ Leo Tolstoy ⓘ William Dean Howells ⓘ Émile Zola ⓘ
opposes	Romanticism ⓘ
originatedIn	France ⓘ
philosophicalAspect	focus on observable reality ⓘ interest in social conditions ⓘ
rejects	heroic subject matter as a norm ⓘ idealization ⓘ sentimentalism ⓘ
relatedMovement	Critical realism ⓘ Realism self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Naturalism Social realism ⓘ
subjectMatter	contemporary life ⓘ middle class ⓘ social problems ⓘ working class ⓘ
technique	accurate perspective and anatomy in painting ⓘ colloquial language in literature ⓘ detailed description ⓘ
timePeriod	19th century ⓘ
value	objectivity ⓘ plausible causality in narrative ⓘ verisimilitude ⓘ

Referenced by (618)

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Mark Twain → movement → Realism ⓘ

Madame X by John Singer Sargent → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Madame X

Eastman Johnson → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Prince and the Pauper → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

Realism → relatedMovement → Realism self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Naturalism

American literature → hasPeriod → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Naturalism

Primo Levi → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Neorealism

Post-Impressionism → influencedBy → Realism ⓘ

Leo Tolstoy → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: realism

Winslow Homer → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Winslow Homer → influencedBy → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: French Realism

Nighthawks → genre → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Nighthawks → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Impressionism → influencedBy → Realism ⓘ

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

William Dean Howells → influenced → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realist writers

Samuel → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Eastman → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastman Johnson

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Old Stagecoach → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Pension Claim Agent → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Boy Lincoln → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

American Rembrandt → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastman Johnson

American Rembrandt → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Eastman Johnson

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Pearl of Orr's Island → associatedWithMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Norman Rockwell → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Grapes of Wrath → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Madame X → movement → Realism ⓘ

Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Edgar Degas → movement → Realism ⓘ

Émile Zola → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: realism

Kate Chopin → movement → Realism ⓘ

Gustave Courbet → movement → Realism ⓘ

Expressionism → opposedTo → Realism ⓘ

Negro Life at the South → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Huckleberry Finn → literaryPeriod → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves → genre → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Resurrection → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

Norman Rockwell Museum → genreOfExhibitions → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Willa Cather → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary realism

Palliser series → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

War and Peace → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

A Little Journey in the World → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Anna Karenina → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

Hadji Murad → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

Western canon of art → includesPeriod → Realism ⓘ

William Morris Hunt → movement → Realism ⓘ