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Realism, Realist or Realistic may refer to:

The arts

Realism (arts), the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life
Realism (dramatic arts), a movement towards greater fidelity to real life
Realism (visual arts), a style of painting that depicts what the eye can see
Classical Realism, an artistic movement in late 20th Century that valued beauty and artistic skill
Hyperrealism (painting), a genre of painting that resembles high resolution photography
Kitchen sink realism, an English cultural movement in the 1950s and 1960s that concentrated on contemporary social realism
Literary realism, a 19th century literary movement
Magic realism, an artistic genre in which magical elements appear in an otherwise realistic setting
Nazi heroic realism or the art of the third Reich, a style of propaganda art associated with Nazi Germany
New Realism, an artistic movement founded in 1960 by Pierre Restany and Yves Klein
Poetic realism, a film movement in France in the 1930s that used heightened aestheticism
Photorealism, a genre of painting that resembles photography
Romantic realism, an aesthetic art term popularized by writer/philosopher Ayn Rand
Social realism, an artistic movement which depicts working class activities
Socialist realism, a style of propaganda art associated with Communism

International relations

Defensive realism, a theory that anarchy on the world stage causes states to increase their security, resulting in greater instability

Liberal realism or the "English school of international relations theory", the theory that there exists a 'society of states'

Neorealism or structural realism, a theory that international structures act as a constraint on state behavior

Offensive realism, a theory that states will exploit opportunities to expand whenever they're presented

Political realism, a theory that the primary motivation of states is the desire for power or security, rather than ideals or ethics

Subaltern realism, a theory that Third World states are more concerned with short term gains

Law

Legal realism, a theory that law is made by human beings and thus subject to human imperfections

Left realism, a theory that crime disproportionately affects working class people

Right Realism, a theory about the prevention and control of crime

Philosophy

Aesthetic Realism, a philosophy founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel

Australian realism or Australian materialism, a 20th Century school of philosophy in Australia

Christian Realism, a philosophy advocated by Reinhold Niebuhr

Constructive realism, a philosophy of science

Cornell realism, a view in meta-ethics associated with the work of Richard Boyd and others

Critical realism, a philosophy of perception concerned with the accuracy of human sense-data

Direct realism, a theory of perception

Entity realism, a philosophical position within scientific realism

Epistemological realism, a subcategory of objectivism

Hyper-realism or Hyperreality, the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy

Mathematical realism, a branch of philosophy of mathematics

Moderate realism, a position holding that there's no realm where universals exist

Modal realism, a philosophy propounded by David Lewis, that possible worlds are as real as the actual world

Moral realism, the view in philosophy that there are objective moral values

Mystical realism, a philosophy concerning the nature of the divine, advanced by Nikolai Berdyaev

Naive realism, a common sense theory of perception

New realism (philosophy), a school of early 20th-century epistemology rejecting epistemological dualism

Organic realism or the Philosophy of Oganism, the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead, now known as process philosophy

Philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers

Platonic realism, a philosophy articulated by Plato, positing the existence of universals

Quasi-realism, an expressivist meta-ethical theory which asserts that though our moral claims are projectivist we understand them in realist terms

Representative realism, the view that we can't perceive the external world directly

Scientific realism, the view that the world described by science is the real world

Transcendental realism, a concept implying that individuals have a perfect understanding of the limitations of their own minds

Truth-value link realism, a metaphysical concept explaining how to understand parts of the world that are apparently cognitively inaccessible

Other fields

Realism (album), a 2006 album by the German electronic band Steril

Depressive realism, a contested theory that individuals suffering from clinical depression have a more accurate view of reality

Ethnographic realism, a writing style, in anthropology, which narrates the author's experiences and observations as if they were first-hand

Tactical realism, a genre of combat simulations in computer gaming

Realists, a typeface in VOX-ATypI classification ==

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