Aesthetic Realism

deals with feelings, how the story gets to you emotionally. Realism is a life lesson, deals one day at a time. They both see the world through different views not all the same, but drastically different. Realism is more basic than romanticism is, which is more extravagant and detail oriented. Romanticism and realism are the exact opposites.”The Mask of the Red Death” and “To Build a Fire” are perfect examples of romanticism and realism. The stories prove the differences between the genres by comparing

Social Realism Social realism was a movement following the civil war where artists and writers would focus and point out the conditions of the middle to lower working class. Unlike Regional realism, social realism draws attention to the social structures and conditions that the majority of the population was currently experiencing. Edith Wharton and Booker T Washington where two important writers who wrote about their own experiences and of others to demonstrate the new social structure changes at

Literary Realism is a response to social conditions. In the late 19th century, writers took contemporary social issues and created a perspective that would expose the real dangers and damage created by various social conditions, such as colonization, injustices against women, and violence. These perspectives were not meant to influence a change in these conditions, but rather, bring attention to them. One of the most important factors of Literary Realism is that it is presented in an objective manner

Writings of the realism spectrum often deal with the natural world as it truly exists, inhabited by both dreams and the pursuit of happiness, and often times the blunt end to said dreams and pursuit. No exceptions exist for “The Story of an Hour,” by Kate Chopin, and “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London. In “The Story of an Hour,” a woman is told of her husband’s death, and realizes the freedom she has been granted. Unfortunately for her, she discovers that freedom is not hers just yet. In “To Build

Realism is a type of art that illustrates how the world and people really look. “Realism started in the mid-19th century in which figures and scenes are depicted as they are experienced or might be experienced in everyday life (Fine Arts).” Gustave Courbet was the first person to introduce Realism into the art world. He was a French painter who painted Romanticism before discovering Realism (Introduction to the Artistic Style of Realism). He inspired many other painters such as Edouard Manet

Mythology all the way to Contemporary Literature. Individualism is the habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant. Characters of these time periods are portrayed as people who rely on their own opinions in their own lives. First, the Realism period themes include sociology and psychology. People believed social criticism was key to affect the audience, and made sure everyone was represented. Local color was a major theme of this time period too, this focused on indigenous American life

In the early 1900’s both realism and abstractionism formed important parts of America’s artistic culture. The goal of the artistic movement of Realism is accuracy and truth without illustrating subject matter in an idealized manner. The goal of Abstractionism is an almost opposite achievement in illustration. An accurate reproduction of the subject matter is not important; the artist’s rendering of the subject matter is expressed by relaying a core characteristic with emotions and feelings by

In observing various sports stories there can be distinguished approaches on how the story is told. The one distinction is realism vs romanticism. The main discrepancies in these approaches are that a realistic approach manifests the characters as ordinary people, the plot is developed around ordinary events/circumstances, the ending has the possibility of being unhappy, and the literature/film revolves around recent or contemporary life. On the romanticism side, the characters can be larger than

Many Realist stories focus on the different types of restrictions life places on people. In the story “Paul’s Case”, by Willa Catha, the titular protagonist, Paul, desperately attempts to escape the monotony of everyday life, fleeing to New York City in an effort to accomplish this. However, Paul is eventually unable to continue and in the final passages of the story, finds himself driven to suicide. Paul’s actions during these final moments highlight his powerlessness, his struggle to retain his

An artist can create a fantastical world using paints, but clues inside the painting will relieve the artist's true intention. So, does this make the artist a dreamer or a realist? Artist, in any aspect, are both dreamers and realist. They mask their realities in their fictional work. Truth and reality range differently in the hands of the beholder. In works like “Sci-Fi”, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, and “Good Country People” the characters battles between what is real and what is fake