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Realism "Realism rejects imaginative idealization in favour of a close observation of outward appearances." "Realism...usually stemmed either from artists' desire to present more honest, searching, and unidealized views of everyday life or from their attempts to use art as a vehicle for social and political criticism." "Realism's emphasis on detachment, objectivity, and accurate observation, its lucid but restrained criticism of social environment and mores, and the humane understanding that underlay its moral judgments..." Realism from Webster: concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary (a) a doctrine that universals exist outside the mind; specifically : the conception that an abstract term names an independent and unitary reality fidelity in art and literature to nature or to real life and to accurate representation without idealization ] Terms Used in this Discussion: The opposite of romanticism in this movie is realism. Instead of the idealized vision of life presented in romanticism that was compounded of hopes and feelings, realism tended to be a mimic of life. A brief summary of the terms used in the rest of the website: Romantic (Madman) = one who submits to romanticism, while opposing realism Anti-romantic romanticist = one who controls one's passions and submits to realism half the time, while the other half of the time, that individual submits to his passions and controls his realistic tendencies. This person can usually distinguish which is called for in each situation. Realist (Traditionalist) = one who one who submits to realism opposing romanticism |