Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to:

In the arts

Realism (arts) Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to Representation (arts), represent subject-matter truthfully, without artificiality, exaggeration, or speculative fiction, speculative or supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeabl ...

, the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts Arts movements related to realism include: *

American Realism American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an importan ...

* Classical Realism *

Literary realism Literary realism is a movement and genre of literature that attempts to represent mundane and ordinary subject-matter in a faithful and straightforward way, avoiding grandiose or exotic subject-matter, exaggerated portrayals, and speculative ele ...

, a movement from the mid-19th to the early 20th century *

Magical realism Magical realism, magic realism, or marvelous realism is a style or genre of fiction and art that presents a realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements, often blurring the lines between speculation and reality. ''Magical rea ...

, a genre of fiction and art that blurs the line between speculation and reality * Neorealism (art) **

Italian neorealism Italian neorealism (), also known as the Golden Age of Italian Cinema, was a national film movement characterized by stories set amongst the poor and the working class. They are filmed on location, frequently with non-professional actors. They p ...

(film) ** Indian neorealism (film) * New realism, a movement founded in 1960 *

Realism (art movement) Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. The artist Gustave Courbet, the original proponent of Realism, sough ...

, 19th-century painting group * Realistic Manifesto *

Theatrical realism Realism was a general Art movement, movement that began in Nineteenth-century theatre, 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of the Twentieth-century theatre, 20th century. 19th-century realism is closely connec ...

, 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

In philosophy

Philosophical realism Philosophical realismusually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject mattersis the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world ...

Realist approaches in philosophy include: * Aesthetic realism (metaphysics) * Agential realism * Aristotelian realism * Australian realism *

Austrian realism Philosophical realismusually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject mattersis the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world i ...

* Christian realism * Conceptualist realism * Constructive realism * Critical realism (disambiguation) * Dialectical realism * Empirical realism *

Entity realism Entity realism (also selective realism), sometimes equated with referential realism, is a philosophical position within the debate about scientific realism. It is a variation of realism (independently proposed by Stanford School philosophers Nan ...

* Epistemic/ontic structural realism *

Epistemological realism Epistemological realism is a philosophical position, a subcategory of objectivism, holding that what can be known about an object exists independently of one's mind. John Haldane, Crispin Wright (eds.), ''Reality, Representation, and Projection'', ...

* Hermeneutic realism * Internal/pragmatic realism *

Local realism In physics, the principle of locality states that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings. A theory that includes the principle of locality is said to be a "local theory". This is an alternative to the concept of ins ...

* Logical realism *

Metaphysical realism Philosophical realismusually not treated as a position of its own but as a stance towards other subject mattersis the view that a certain kind of thing (ranging widely from abstract objects like numbers to moral statements to the physical world i ...

Modal realism Modal realism is the view propounded by the philosopher David Lewis that all possible worlds are real in the same way as is the actual world: they are "of a kind with this world of ours." It states that possible worlds exist, possible worlds are ...

Model-dependent realism Model-dependent realism is a view of scientific inquiry that focuses on the role of scientific models of phenomena. It claims reality should be interpreted based upon these models, and where several models overlap in describing a particular subject ...

Moderate realism Moderate realism (also called immanent realism) is a position in the debate on the metaphysics of universals which holds that there is no realm in which universals exist (in opposition to Platonic realism, which asserts the existence of abstrac ...

Moral realism Moral realism (also ethical realism) is the position that ethical sentences express propositions that refer to objective features of the world (that is, features independent of subjective opinion), some of which may be true to the extent that t ...

* Mystical realism *

Naïve realism In philosophy of perception and epistemology, naïve realism (also known as direct realism, manifest realism or perceptual realism) is the idea that the senses provide us with direct awareness of objects as they really are. When referred to as ...

(including direct and manifest realism) *

New realism (philosophy) {{No footnotes, date=June 2025 New realism was a philosophy expounded in the early 20th century by a group of six US based scholars, namely Edwin Bissell Holt (Harvard University), Walter Taylor Marvin (Rutgers College), William Pepperell Montagu ...

Peircean realism Pragmatic ethics is a theory of normative philosophical ethics and meta-ethics that is associated with pragmatism, a philosophical movement that developed around the turn of the 20th century. Ethical pragmatists such as John Dewey believe that s ...

Perspectival realism In Caspar Hare's theory of perspectival realism, there is a defining ''intrinsic'' property that the things that are in perceptual awareness have. Consider seeing object A but not object B. Of course, we can say that the visual experience of A i ...

Platonic realism The Theory of Forms or Theory of Ideas, also known as Platonic idealism or Platonic realism, is a philosophical theory credited to the Classical Greek philosopher Plato. A major concept in metaphysics, the theory suggests that the physical w ...

* Pluralistic realism * Quasi-realism * Rational realism * Realistic monism * Realistic rationalism * Referential realism * Relational realism * Representational realism *

Romantic realism Romantic realism is art that combines elements of both romanticism and realism. The terms "romanticism" and "realism" have been used in varied ways, and are sometimes seen as opposed to one another. In literature and art The term has long standin ...

Scientific realism Scientific realism is the philosophical view that the universe described by science (including both observable and unobservable aspects) exists independently of our perceptions, and that verified scientific theories are at least approximately true ...

** Musgrave's scientific realism * Scotistic realism * Semantic realism (epistemology) * Semantic realism (philosophy of science) * Semirealism * Set-theoretic realism * Speculative realism * Spiritual realism * Subtle realism *

Theological critical realism In theology, critical realism is an epistemological position adopted by a community of scientists turned theologians. They are influenced by the scientist turned philosopher Michael Polanyi. Polanyi's ideas were taken up enthusiastically by T.& ...

* Transcendental realism * Truth-value link realism

In the social sciences

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 Legal realism is a naturalistic approach to law; it is the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science; that is, it should rely on empirical evidence. Hypotheses must be tested against observations of the world. Leg ...

, the view that jurisprudence should emulate the methods of natural science, i.e., rely on empirical evidence **

New legal realism New legal realism (NLR) is an emerging school of thought in American legal philosophy. Overview Although it draws on the older legal realism from the first half of the twentieth century, new legal realism differs in important ways. Notably, it mov ...

Realism (international relations) Realism, in international relations theory, is a Theory, theoretical framework that views world politics as an enduring competition among self-interested State (polity), states vying for power and positioning within an Anarchy (international re ...

, the view that world politics is driven by competitive self-interest **

Classical realism (international relations) Classical realism is an international relations theory from the realist school of thought. Realism makes the following assumptions: states are the main actors in the international relations system, there is no supranational international author ...

Neorealism (international relations) Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation. The ana ...

Structural realism Neorealism or structural realism is a theory of international relations that emphasizes the role of power politics in international relations, sees competition and conflict as enduring features and sees limited potential for cooperation. The ana ...

, in international relations * Subtle realism, in social science research methodology

Media

* ''Realistic'' (album), an album by Ivy * ''Realism'' (Steril album), an album by Steril * ''Realism'' (The Magnetic Fields album), an album by The Magnetic Fields * ''The Realist'' (American magazine), a satirical magazine * ''The Realist'' (British magazine), a magazine dedicated to scientific humanism

Politics

Czech Realist Party The Czech Realist Party officially Czech Progressive Party founded as Czech People's Party (also known as "Realists") was founded in 1900 by Tomáš Masaryk, Karel Kramář and Josef Kaizl. It attempted to reform the Czech Government and establish ...

, former political party in Austria-Hungary *

Realists (political party) Realists () is a defunct conservative party based in the Czech Republic. It was founded by Petr Robejšek in November 2016. Other members include Pavel Kohout, Antonín Fryč and Jiří Horecký. Robejšek stated that the party aims to succeed i ...

, conservative political party in the Czech Republic

Other uses

Realistic (brand) Realistic was a private label consumer electronics brand produced by RadioShack. Initially only a home audio equipment brand, its product line expanded to include CB radios, walkie-talkies, and video camcorders by the 1980s. The brand was disco ...