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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Tom Joad literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
The Iceman Cometh movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Washington Square literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: realism
El Jaleo movement Realism
Gassed movement Realism
Bret Harte movement Realism
Prince Edward literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Annie Kilburn literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Les Rougon-Macquart literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: Naturalism
The Awakening literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
The Story of an Hour literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
At the ’Cadian Ball literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
A Night in Acadie literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
1899 – The Awakening movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Désirée’s Baby literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Ornans, Doubs, France associatedArtMovement Realism
subject surface form: Ornans
A Burial at Ornans movement Realism
The Desperate Man movement Realism
The Sleepers movement Realism
The Wave movement Realism
The Wave artHistoricalContext Realism
this entity surface form: French Realism
Le Ventre de Paris literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: Naturalism
The Stone Breakers movement Realism
Symbolist Manifesto opposes Realism
Otto Dix movement Realism
Olympia movement Realism
subject surface form: Olympia (painting)
Norwood; or, Village Life in New England literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Cannery Row literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
In Dubious Battle literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Eça de Queirós movement Realism
Tom Sawyer universe literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Little Men literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
O Pioneers! literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Anders Zorn movement Realism