George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo (1924), Whitney Museum of American ArtGeorge Bellows, New York (1911)Ashcan School artists and friends at John French Sloan's Philadelphia Studio, 1898
American Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century. Whether a cultural portrayal or a scenic view of downtown New York City, American realist works attempted to define what was real.
In the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century a new generation of painters, writers and journalists were coming of age. Many of the painters felt the influence of older U.S. artists such as Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, Thomas Pollock Anshutz, and William Merritt Chase. However they were interested in creating new and more urbane works that reflected city life and a population that was more urban than rural in the U.S. as it entered the new century.
AmericanRealism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary...
Magic realism or magical realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements...
guiding principles of Socialist Realism were party loyalty, presentation of correct ideology and accessibility. Realism, more easily understood by the...
artistic movement it is closely related to American scene painting and to Regionalism. American Social Realism includes the works of such artists as those...
Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction...
Can Have a Body Like Mine. Americanrealism Genre studies Literary realism Literary theory Magic realism Maximalism Realism (arts) Postmodernism Yates...
Socialist realism was the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature...
Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American literary movement. Writers in this sub-category of realism are...
Expressionism had minimalized realism as a serious art undertaking. Though Photorealists share some aspects of American realists, such as Edward Hopper...
Offensive realism is a structural theory in international relations that belongs to the neorealist school of thought and was put forward by the political...
with strategies, in part, influenced by those of their American Pop counterparts. Capitalist realism is a German art movement co-founded in 1963 by artist...
Legal realism is a naturalistic approach to law; it is the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, that is, it should rely...
Neoclassical realism is a theory of international relations and an approach to foreign policy analysis. Initially coined by Gideon Rose in a 1998 World...
Classical Realism is an artistic movement in the late-20th and early 21st century in which drawing and painting place a high value upon skill and beauty...
of particulars). Aristotelian realism (also called strong realism or moderate realism) is the rejection of extreme realism. This position establishes the...
Romantic realism is art that combines elements of both romanticism and realism. The terms "romanticism" and "realism" have been used in varied ways, and...
Bellows, 1924, Americanrealism Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, Cityscape During the 1930s through the 1960s as abstract painting in America and Europe evolved...
Aesthetic Realism is a philosophy founded in 1941 by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902–1978). He defined it as a three-part study: "[T]hese...
Kmart realism, also termed "low-rent tragedies", is a form of minimalist literature found in American short fiction that became popular in the 1980s....
elements His teachers included Thomas Eakins (Americanrealism, photography), Thomas Hovenden (Americanrealism), Benjamin Constant (orientalist paintings...
Action painting Aestheticism Altermodern American Barbizon school American Impressionism AmericanrealismAmerican Scene Painting Analytical art Antipodeans...
of the American University in Cairo, and Quentin Meillassoux of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Credit for the name "speculative realism" is generally...
Philosophical realism – usually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject matters – is the view that a certain kind of...
The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (German: Wiener Schule des Phantastischen Realismus) is a group of artists founded in Vienna in 1946. The group's...
Northwest School – 1930s – 1940s, United States Social realism – 1929, international Socialist realism – c. 1920 – 1960, began in Soviet Union Leningrad School...
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