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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The Fighting Capercaillies by Ferdinand von Wright movement Realism
subject surface form: The Fighting Capercaillies
Pekka Halonen movement Realism
Dalou movement Realism
subject surface form: Jules Dalou
Juliusz Kossak movement Realism
Nicolae Grigorescu movement Realism
Alphonse Legros movement Realism
In the Studio movement Realism
The Meeting movement Realism
Michael Ancher movement Realism
The Harvesters movement Realism
subject surface form: The Harvesters (Anna Ancher)
The Civil Marriage movement Realism
The Café Scene movement Realism
Eugène Fromentin movement Realism
The Convalescent movement Realism
Alfred Stevens movement Realism
Modest Urgell movement Realism
Eero Järnefelt movement Realism
Klaus Groth movement Realism
James Tissot movement Realism
Duane Hanson movement Realism
Man at His Bath movement Realism
Anton Romako movement Realism
Vsevolod Garshin movement Realism
Le Fifre movement Realism
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (painting) movement Realism
subject surface form: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Raffaëlli movement Realism
subject surface form: Jean-François Raffaëlli
Vasily Surikov movement Realism
Franz Skarbina movement Realism
Lesser Ury movement Realism
Mikoláš Aleš movement Realism
"Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana" movement Realism
subject surface form: Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana
"The Pasternak Family" movement Realism
subject surface form: The Pasternak Family