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The Realism Information

The realism for me all what we see in our life. The realism is something real like in the art
and literature.

Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects in
accordance with secular empirical rules, as they are considered to exist in third person
objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation. As such, the approach inherently
implies a belief that such reality is ontologically independent of man's conceptual schemes,
linguistic practices and beliefs, and thus can be known to the artist, who can in turn
represent this 'reality' faithfully. As Ian Watt states, modern realism begins from the
position that truth can be discovered by the individual through the senses" and as such "it
has its origins in Descartes and Locke, and received its first full formulation by Thomas
Reid in the middle of the eighteenth century."
Realism often refers more specifically to the artistic movement, which began in France in
the 1850s. These realists positioned themselves against romanticism, a genre dominating
French literature and artwork in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Purporting to be
undistorted by personal bias, Realism believed in the ideology of objective reality and
revolted against the exaggerated emotionalism of the romantic movement. Truth and
accuracy became the goals of many Realists. Many paintings which sprung up during the
time of realism depicted people at work, as during the 19th century there were many open
work places due to the Industrial Revolution and Commercial Revolutions. The popularity
of such 'realistic' works grew with the introduction of photography — a new visual source
that created a desire for people to produce representations which look “objectively real.”

Realism in American literature

In American literature, the term "realism" encompasses the period of time from the Civil
War to the turn of the century during which William Dean Howells, Rebecca Harding Davis,
Henry James, Mark Twain, and others wrote fiction devoted to accurate representation
and an exploration of American lives in various contexts. As the United States grew rapidly
after the Civil War, the increasing rates of democracy and literacy, the rapid growth in
industrialism and urbanization, an expanding population base due to immigration, and a
relative rise in middle-class affluence provided a fertile literary environment for readers
interested in understanding these rapid shifts in culture.

Realism was a movement that encompassed the entire country, or at least the Midwest
and South, although many of the writers and critics associated with realism (notably W. D.
Howells) were based in New England.

Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the
most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their full value and true
meaning. It would apprehend in all particulars the connection between the familiar and the
extraordinary, and the seen and unseen of human nature.

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