Realism

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

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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

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Persis Lapham literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Bolesław Prus movement Realism
Sweet Thursday literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
grocer (Lee Chong) literaryMovement Realism
subject surface form: Lee Chong
this entity surface form: American realism
O Mandarim literaryMovement Realism
Tom Shaw literaryMovementOfWork Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Władysław Reymont movement Realism
American Buffalo movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Taos art colony genre Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Naturalism influencedBy Realism
subject surface form: Naturalism (literature)
this entity surface form: Realism (literature)
Summer literaryMovement Realism
subject surface form: Summer (novel)
this entity surface form: American realism
Ilya Repin movement Realism
Euan Uglow movement Realism
this entity surface form: British realism
Jesus Maria literaryMovementContext Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Grazia Deledda movement Realism
this entity surface form: verismo
Ramalho Ortigão movement Realism
Vasily Polenov movement Realism
Wojciech Kossak movement Realism
Jan Styka movement Realism
Zorn movement Realism
subject surface form: Anders Zorn
Midsummer Dance movement Realism
Our Daily Bread movement Realism
Omnibus movement Realism
The Mora Fair movement Realism
Ivan Vazov movement Realism
Nikolai Leskov movement Realism
Alex Colville movement Realism
Mary Pratt movement Realism
Tom Forrestall movement Realism
Pearlstein movement Realism
subject surface form: Philip Pearlstein
Tadeusz Popiel movement Realism
Gargantua movement Realism
Les Gens de justice movement Realism
Les Bons Bourgeois movement Realism
Les Blanchisseuses movement Realism
The Uprising movement Realism
painting "Battle of Grunwald" by Jan Matejko movement Realism
subject surface form: Battle of Grunwald
Gari Melchers movement Realism