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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La Famille Bellelli movement Realism
Stanislas Lépine movement Realism
Giuseppe De Nittis movement Realism
Job movement Realism
subject surface form: Job (painting)
Christ on the Cross movement Realism
Edmond Duranty movement Realism
Science and Charity movement Realism
The First Communion movement Realism
Vautrin literaryMovement Realism
Odour of Chrysanthemums literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: English realism
Paul Laurence Dunbar movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Ferragus literaryMovement Realism
Gaudissart II movement Realism
La Bourse literaryMovement Realism
Adieu literaryMovement Realism
Georgian Romanticism influenced Realism
this entity surface form: Georgian realism
Leonid Pasternak movement Realism
Vissarion Belinsky movement Realism
this entity surface form: Russian realism
Umberto Giordano movement Realism
this entity surface form: verismo
The Ox-Bow Incident (novel) literaryMovement Realism
subject surface form: The Ox-Bow Incident
this entity surface form: American realism
Henri Fantin-Latour movement Realism
William Inge movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
George Milton literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Three Tales literaryMovement Realism
Poor White literaryMovement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Adolf von Menzel movement Realism
subject surface form: Adolph von Menzel
Katherine O’Flaherty movement Realism
this entity surface form: American realism
Elizabeth Nourse movement Realism
Edna Pontellier literaryMovementAssociation Realism
this entity surface form: American realism