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 Sower movement Realism
Man with a Hoe genre Realism
Man with a Hoe movement Realism
The Potato Planters movement Realism
The Winnower movement Realism
Alexander Kielland movement Realism
H. L. Mencken movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
The Seagull movement Realism
this entity surface form: Russian realism
The Duel literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: Russian realism
Robert Henry Cozad movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Ashcan School movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Ashcan School influencedBy Realism
Rockwell Kent movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
The House of the Dead literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: Russian realism
David Belasco influenced Realism
this entity surface form: American theatrical realism
“Hotel Room” by Edward Hopper movement Realism
subject surface form: Hotel Room
this entity surface form: American Realism
New Objectivity subMovement Realism
this entity surface form: Verism
Everett Shinn movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
John Sloan movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Mirgorod literaryMovement Realism
George Luks movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Winslow Homer Studio associatedWith Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Mariano Fortuny movement Realism
James E. Allen movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Frederic Remington movement Realism
Emma (novel by Jane Austen) literaryMovement Realism
subject surface form: Emma (novel)
this entity surface form: realism
United States theatre developedGenre Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
The Burghers of Calais (sculpture) movement Realism
subject surface form: The Burghers of Calais
Nihilist Girl literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: Russian realism
Isabel Bishop movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Reginald Marsh movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Dorothy Varian movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Hopper movement Realism
subject surface form: Edward Hopper
this entity surface form: American Realism
Automat movement Realism
Automat movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Chop Suey movement Realism
Early Sunday Morning movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Gas movement Realism
subject surface form: Gas (painting)
this entity surface form: American Realism
Room in New York genre Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Room in New York movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
House by the Railroad genre Realism
this entity surface form: American realism