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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Rockwell → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Norman Rockwell

this entity surface form: American realism

Olympia → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Olympia (painting)

Otto Dix → movement → Realism ⓘ

Pavilion of Realism (1855) → movement → Realism ⓘ

Pioneer Woman (Confident) statue → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Pioneer Woman (Confident)

this entity surface form: American realism

Portrait of Henry James → movement → Realism ⓘ

Primo Levi → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: Neorealism

Prisoners from the Front → movement → Realism ⓘ

Right and Left → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Robert Henri → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Samuel → movement → Realism ⓘ

subject surface form: Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Saying Grace → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Snap the Whip → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Boy Lincoln → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Burghers of Calais (cast) by Auguste Rodin → movement → Realism ⓘ

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

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Desperate Man → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Floor Scrapers → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Fog Warning → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Gossips → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Gulf Stream → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Hatch Family → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Iceman Cometh → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

The Lady of the Aroostook → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary realism

The Life Line → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Old Stagecoach → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Painter's Studio → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Pension Claim Agent → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

The Potato Eaters → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Problem We All Live With → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

The Sleepers → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Stone Breakers → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Thinker → movement → Realism ⓘ

The Wave → movement → Realism ⓘ

Their Wedding Journey → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American realism

Thomas Eakins → movement → Realism ⓘ

Walt Whitman → movement → Realism ⓘ

Willa Cather → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American literary realism

William Morris Hunt → movement → Realism ⓘ

Winslow Homer → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: American Realism

Young Ladies of the Village → movement → Realism ⓘ

Édouard Manet → movement → Realism ⓘ

Émile Zola → movement → Realism ⓘ

this entity surface form: realism

The Desperate Man → movementAssociatedWithCreator → Realism ⓘ

Academic art → opposedMovement → Realism ⓘ

Expressionism → opposedTo → Realism ⓘ

Symbolist Manifesto → opposes → Realism ⓘ