realism (arts)

Realism in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_arts" title="The arts">the arts</a> is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificiality" title="Artificiality">artificiality</a> and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.

Realism has been prevalent in the arts at many periods, and is in large part a matter of technique and training, and the avoidance of stylization. In the visual arts, illusionistic realism is the accurate depiction of lifeforms, perspective, and the details of light and colour. Realist works of art may emphasize the mundane, ugly or sordid, such as works of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_realism" title="Social realism">social realism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regionalism_%28art%29" title="Regionalism (art)">regionalism</a>, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_realism" title="Kitchen sink realism">kitchen sink realism</a>.

There have been various realism movements in the arts, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a> style of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verismo" class="mw-redirect" title="Verismo">verismo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_realism" title="Literary realism">literary realism</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_realism" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatrical realism">theatrical realism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Neorealism" class="mw-redirect" title="Italian Neorealism">Italian neorealist cinema</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_art_movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Realism art movement">realism art movement</a> in painting began in France in the 1850s, after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution_of_1848" title="French Revolution of 1848">1848 Revolution</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_%28arts%29#cite_note-1">[1]</a> The realist painters rejected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism" title="Romanticism">Romanticism</a>, which had come to dominate French literature and art, with roots in the late <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_century" title="18th century">18th century</a>.

realism (arts)

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