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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Helene Schjerfbeck movement Realism
Jacob Dryfoos literaryPeriod Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Paul Landowski movement Realism
Gustave Caillebotte movement Realism
Golden Age of American Illustration associatedMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Isabel Archer literaryPeriod Realism
The Glass Menagerie (stage) literaryMovement Realism
subject surface form: The Glass Menagerie
this entity surface form: American realism
The Balcony movement Realism
The Fifer movement Realism
The Railway movement Realism
Eternal Springtime movement Realism
Adam movement Realism
subject surface form: Adam (Rodin)
Eve movement Realism
subject surface form: Eve (Rodin sculpture)
The Age of Bronze movement Realism
Ignacio Zuloaga movement Realism
Jean Béraud movement Realism
The Woodgatherer by Jean-François Millet movement Realism
subject surface form: The Woodgatherer
Bingham movement Realism
subject surface form: George Caleb Bingham
this entity surface form: American Realism
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
The Jolly Flatboatmen movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Stump Speaking movement Realism
this entity surface form: American Realism
Anna Christie literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Beyond the Horizon literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Henry Merwin Shrady movement Realism
Olive Chancellor is a Boston feminist reformer literaryPeriod Realism
subject surface form: Olive Chancellor
Edna Ferber movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Rose of Sharon literaryPeriod Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Lavinia Penniman literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Oklahoma (fictional setting) literaryMovementContext Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
The Jaleo movement Realism
William Orpen movement Realism