This early exponent of realism in its most radical form, despite his taste for vulgar types, showed such strength of technique that his landscapes were accepted almost at once as masterpieces.
A wide gulf indeed separates the mood and the method of this superb bravura piece from the reposeful charm of the Giorgionesque saint in the St. Mark of the Salute, or the healthy realism of the unconcerned St. Sebastian in the S.
All the violent contractions, all the visible tortures, all the frightful shrinkings that suffering, despair, and rage can produce upon human muscles are rendered in this group with a realism that would make the most callous shudder.
Florentine realism and quaint fancy being thus curiously blended, the artistic result may be profitably studied for the light it throws upon the so-called Paganism of the earlier Renaissance.
It is, in fact, a novel difficult to classify, impregnated as it is with a noble, Tolstoian idealism, yet just as undoubtedly streaked with an unrelenting realism so often coupled with the name of Zola.
Much of the success of such romance writing rests upon the rebound, natural to humanity, from intense realism to extreme ideality; more, perhaps, upon the fact that this age which is grossly material is also deeply spiritual.
Life by its realism is always spoiling the subject-matter of art.
Both Marx and Engels have never ceased with intelligence and calm judgment to present that realism which we have seen as the essence of their view of life.
Marxism, in practice, means realismand a reliance on evolution, however little the wilder utterances of Marx himself may suggest that fact.
But that I am right in characterising Marxism as a social-political realismyou see clearly from the many and fundamental declarations and acknowledgments of its founders, which come to us out of all periods of their lives.
It is this social-political realism which gives the finishing stroke to all utopism and revolutionism.
The freedom of his language is only the seal of realism affixed to his writings, such as we find it in Shakespeare.
The Memorie inutile in which Gozzi has depicted himself with such lifelikerealism are sincere and vivacious, and rival Diderot and Rousseau for directness, luminousness and interest.
By realism I mean the gift of ourselves to reality, the work of concrete realization .
They breathed into it their merciless realism and their uncompromising loyalty.
Thought without wings, action without generosity, brutal realism, which has not even the excuse of being the realism of healthy men; force and interest: Mars turned bagman.
That the prophets of educational realism should have failed to see this is not to be laid at their door as a fault; it merely shows that they belonged to their own time, and not to ours.
The realism of human life and thought, which constituted their raison d'être, had been unable to sustain itself as a principle of action, because there was no school of method.
In their hands sense-realism became allied with Protestant theology, and pure humanism disappeared.
Such realism is usually the prerogative of the novelist rather than of the historian, and in one of his prefaces Parkman recognizes that the reader may feel this and suspect him.
The realism is so strong that the author seems to have come in person fresh from the scenes he describes, with the smoke of the battle hovering about him and its fierce light glowing in his eyes.
That is carrying realism a little too far," said Ruth.
But in providing realism for motion pictures more than one conscientious player has been injured, and not a few have lost their lives.
The imaginative varnish of 'The Nights' serves admirably as a foil to the absolute realism of the picture in general.
But Bunner's realismnever concerned itself with the record of trivialities for their own sake.
And he showed him the copy, minutely accurate but without the wonderful atmosphere, without the miraculous realism of the original.
When you feel that I have described with too much realism that which I was forced to witness, you may also close the book.
It seems to us that there is in this latest product much of the realism of personal experience.
But 'Carmen' had lately been turned into a femme de la balle, and, of course, since the public had tasted realism it wanted more.
The extraordinary vehemence and passion, the daring realismof St. Teresa reminded Evelyn of Vittoria.
She found the same unrestrained passionate realism in both; she thought of Belasquez's early pictures, and then of Ribera.
And a like intellectual self-denial is needed on the part of the idealist, who is apt to dismiss all realism as crude, uncritical, or barbaric.
Else he is dealing with some man of straw of his own fancy, and will be found, as so often happens, assuming the truth of realism in every argument he brings forward.
As realism generally coincides with monism, so idealism is usually identical with dualism.
On the other hand, Goethe's empirical realism was profoundly influenced by his medical studies at Strasburg, and especially by his later comparative anatomical and botanical investigations at Jena and Weimar.
In this we have the best means of joining consistent materialism or realism with consistent spiritualism or idealism.
Realism is not identical with materialism, and may even be definitely connected with the very opposite, dynamism or energism.
When I dealt with this in the fourth chapter of the History of Creation, I pointed out how great an influence these morphological studies, together with his idea of evolution, had on the realism of his philosophy.
Realism never disappears altogether from French literature: it was at that moment all-powerful.
He borrowed from it all that was good and sound; he accepted realism as a practical method, not as an ultimate result and a consummation.
As modern painting tends to give the feeling of a subject, the subjective impression rather than the literal outline, we can conceive even in latest musical realism the "atmosphere" as the principal aim.
In politics, as in literature and art, realism is abhorrent to the Anglo-Saxon temperament.
The playwrights did what the contemporary painters should have done, they fell back, in a measure, upon realism when high imagination was no longer possible.
The literary power, nevertheless, is unabated; much ingenuity is shown in keeping up the interest of the story; and there is the old gift of vitalizing abstractions by uncompromising realism of treatment.
The Life and Death of Mr. Badman is a piece of prose indeed, and its realism is, perhaps, the more effective from being wholly devoid of the least particle of imagination.
Let us forget all philosophical controversies about realism and idealism; let us try to reconstruct for ourselves a simplicity, a virginal and candid glance, freeing us from the habits contracted in the course of practical life.
And the common mistake of realism and idealism is to believe it effected in advance, whereas it is relatively second to perception.
But he has got the vividness and realism which have usually been lacking before: and though some of his details are pretty "free" it is by no means only through such things that these qualities are secured.
And he shows this realism and this idealism in a prose narrative, bringing the thoughts and actions and characters and speech of fictitious human beings before his readers--for their inspection perhaps; for their delight certainly.
