realism

Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

In the arts

Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts

Arts movements related to realism include:

American Realism
Classical Realism
Literary realism, a movement from the mid-19th to the early 20th century
Magical realism, a genre of fiction and art that blurs the line between speculation and reality
Neorealism (art)
Italian neorealism (film)
Indian neorealism (film)
New realism, a movement founded in 1960
Realism (art movement), 19th-century painting group
Realistic Manifesto
Theatrical realism, one of the many types of theatre such as Naturalism
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, an art movement
Socialist realism, an art style developed in the Soviet Union

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Realist approaches in the social sciences include:

Ethnographic realism, either a descriptive word, i.e. of or relating to the first-hand participant-observation practices of ethnographers, or a writing style or genre that narrates in a similar fashion.
Legal realism, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence
New legal realism
Realism (international relations), the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest
Classical realism (international relations)
Neorealism (international relations)
Structural realism, in international relations
Subtle realism, in social science research methodology