Realism

Examples of Realism in the following topics:

• Realism

• Realism in Painting

• Germany and the United States

  • Realism is the attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in an objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation.
  • More generally, realist works of art are those that, in revealing a truth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid, such as works of social realism.
  • For example, in Germany and the United States, Realism adopted many different forms.
  • Biedermeier art appealed to the prosperous middle classes with detailed but polished realism, often celebrating domestic virtues .
  • Differentiate Realism in Biedermeier German art from Realism in early 20th century American art

• The Rise of Realism

  • American realism attempted to portray the life of ordinary Americans at home, presenting a new artistic perspective.
  • Through artistic expression, American realism attempted to portray the cultural exuberance of the figurative American landscape and the life of ordinary Americans at home.
  • Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the now, American realism presented a new gateway into modernism.
  • Naturalism is the outgrowth of literary realism, a prominent literary movement in mid-nineteenth century France and elsewhere.
  • Analyze the new focus on realism and how it manifested itself in the arts

• American Painting: The Ashcan School

  • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
  • The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism that came into prominence in New York City during the early 20th century and is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
  • American Realism was a concept that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in art, music, and literature.
  • American Realism attempted to portray the exhaustion and cultural exuberance of the American landscape and the life of ordinary people at home.
  • Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the grit and reality of daily life, American Realism presented a breakthrough—introducing Modernism, and what it means to be in the present.

• Painting

  • American painting in the 1930s and 40s is marked by developments in Regionalism, Social Realism, and Modernist techniques like Precisionism.
  • The dominant styles of the time include Regionalism, Social Realism, Precisionism, and Abstract Modernism.
  • Several separate and related movements began and developed during the Great Depression including Regionalism and Social Realism, along with Modernist trends.
  • Many artists who subscribed to Social Realism were painters with socialist (but not necessarily Marxist) political views.
  • Compare and contrast the painting styles of Regionalism, Social Realism, Precisionism, and Abstract Modernism.

• Painting and Sculpture

  • American Realism attempted to portray the true reality, glamour, and grit of early 20th century America.
  • Pulling away from fantasy and focusing on the now, American Realism presented a new gateway and a breakthrough—introducing modernism, and what it means to be in the present.
  • The Ashcan school was a group of New York City artists who led the movement in realism, seeking to capture the turn of the 20th century New York City through realistic portraits of everyday life.
  • Edward Hopper developed an individual style of realism by concentrating on light and form, and avoiding overt social content .
  • Discuss the early 20th century art movements, including American Realism, the Harlem Renaissance, Modern Classicist sculpture, and the landscape images of the Southwest.

• Literary Naturalism

  • Naturalism was a literary movement that used realism to explore the effects of heredity and social environment on human character.
  • Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from roughly 1880 to 1940 that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.
  • Naturalism is the outgrowth of literary realism , a prominent literary movement in mid-19th-century France and elsewhere.
  • Whereas realism seeks only to describe subjects as they really are, naturalism also attempts to determine the underlying forces (e.g., the environment or heredity) influencing the actions of its subjects.

• Photorealism

  • Photorealism or super-realism is a genre of art that that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, encompassing painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.
  • Photorealism, also known as super-realism or hyper-realism, is a genre of art that makes use of photography in order to create a highly realistic art work in another medium.

• American Regionalist Art

  • After World War I, many American artists rejected the modern trends emanating from the Armory Show and European influences, choosing instead to adopt an academic realism to depict American rural scenes.
  • Partly due to the Great Depression, Regionalism became one of the dominant art movements in America in the 1930s (the other being Social Realism).
  • A debate between abstraction versus realism had been ongoing since the 1913 Armory Show, and this continued throughout the 1930s between Regionalism, Social Realism, and Abstract art.
  • During the 1930s, these artists documented and depicted American small towns and rural landscapes, as well as cities; the works which stress local and small-town themes are often called "American Regionalism", and those depicting urban scenes, with political and social consciousness, are called "Social Realism".