What is realistic in art?

Answer 1

Art in the 18th Century was split up into 2 major groups, Realists and Romancists.
Realists were looked down upon the Romancists, because of their views upon the world, Mary Ann Evens was a well-known realist who was a lonely howwife in the Industrial Revolution, she descibed London as it was.

So to answer your question, Realists poets or Realistic art is views of society in a realistic way, e.i Someone would descibe New York City as a crowded busy place and not as a relaxed slow, natural place.

Answer 2

Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation and "in accordance with secular, empirical rules." 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 (or knowable) 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."

Answer 3

I think of something real. What else?

The question should be what you DONT think of :p

Answer 4

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