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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Observed surface forms (13)

Surface form	Occurrences
American realism	33
American Realism	28
Naturalism	4
French Realism	3
Russian realism	3
realism	3
American literary realism	2
American realist writers	1
Egyptian realism	1
German realism	1
Neorealism	1
Realist painters	1
Realists	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 (151)

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Scènes de la vie politique → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

The Awakening → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

The Bostonians → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

The Grapes of Wrath → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

The Minister's Charge → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

The Prince and the Pauper → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

The Rise of Silas Lapham → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

The Story of an Hour → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Tom Joad → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Tom Sawyer universe → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

War and Peace → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

Washington Square → literaryMovement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: realism

Huckleberry Finn → literaryPeriod → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Pap Finn → literaryPeriod → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

1899 – The Awakening → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

A Burial at Ornans → movement → Realism ⓘ

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

this entity surface form: American realism

Anders Zorn → movement → Realism ⓘ

Barbizon school → movement → Realism ⓘ

Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Bret Harte → movement → Realism ⓘ

Eastman Johnson → movement → Realism ⓘ

Eastman → movement → Realism ⓘ

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this entity surface form: American Realism

American Rembrandt → movement → Realism ⓘ

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American Rembrandt → movement → Realism ⓘ

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this entity surface form: American Realism

Edgar Degas → movement → Realism ⓘ

Edward Hopper → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Eight Bells → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

El Jaleo → movement → Realism ⓘ

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth → movement → Realism ⓘ

Eça de Queirós → movement → Realism ⓘ

Freedom of Worship → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Fyodor Dostoevsky → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Russian realism

Gassed → movement → Realism ⓘ

George Caleb Bingham → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Girl at Mirror → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Gustave Courbet → movement → Realism ⓘ

Hound and Hunter → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Jean-François Millet → movement → Realism ⓘ

Jonas Lie → movement → Realism ⓘ

Kate Chopin → movement → Realism ⓘ

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe → movement → Realism ⓘ

Leo Tolstoy → movement → Realism ⓘ

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Madame X by John Singer Sargent → movement → Realism ⓘ

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Madame X → movement → Realism ⓘ

Mark Twain → movement → Realism ⓘ

Negro Life at the South → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Nighthawks → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Norman Rockwell → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism