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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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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Realism → relatedMovement → Realism self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Naturalism