The Realism art movement portrayed life as it really was. Authors most associated with the Victorian – Dickens, Austin, the Bronte sisters – constructed stories around social issues. On the surface, Poe, Stoker, Verne, and Haggard seemed to further the aims of the Romantic era that came before, focusing on exotic locales, lost worlds, and the supernatural, with vampires, pirates, swashbucklers, and detectives. However, their works also engaged with “reality” in a broader sense. For instance, Haggard’s Quatermain, whose birth is placed in 1830 and death in 1898, is an Englishman who foreswears the city for nature, for big-game hunting and adventure, but comes to realize, in his later years, that he has helped to destroy the wild free places of his beloved Africa.
| Era Realism and Victorian Age (1830 – 1901) |
| Alternative Names Second Industrial Revolution |
| Total Entries 153 |
| Articles Realism (art movement) – Wikipedia Victorian literature – Wikipedia Allan Quatermain – Wikipedia |
| Description The Realism art movement portrayed life as it really was. Authors most associated with the Victorian – Dickens, Austin, the Bronte sisters – constructed stories around social issues. On the surface, Poe, Stoker, Verne, and Haggard seemed to further the aims of the Romantic era that came before, focusing on exotic locales, lost worlds, and the supernatural, with vampires, pirates, swashbucklers, and detectives. However, their works also engaged with “reality” in a broader sense. For instance, Haggard’s Quatermain, whose birth is placed in 1830 and death in 1898, is an Englishman who foreswears the city for nature, for big-game hunting and adventure, but comes to realize, in his later years, that he has helped to destroy the wild free places of his beloved Africa.
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, sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter, exaggerated emotionalism, and the drama of the Romantic movement, often focusing on unidealized subjects and events that were previously rejected in artwork. Realist works depicted people of all social classes in situations that arise in ordinary life, and often reflected the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions. ~ Realism (art movement) – Wikipedia
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