realist
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- noun
- /ˈriːəlɪst/
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realista
- The exhibition featured a stunning collection of realist paintings that captured everyday life in vivid detail.
- realist novel
- realist painter
- realist painting
But what, what a realist painter will teach you to do is to take the cup and to break it apart into pieces of light.
- But what, what a realist painter will teach you to do is to take the cup and to break it apart into pieces of light.
Examples
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The specificity of time and place is a new feature of fiction, of this realist fiction.
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Telenovelas and their melodramatic and realist genres are good examples of commercialized cultural referents that figure prominently in TV Maxambomba videos.
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But what, what a realist painter will teach you to do is to take the cup and to break it apart into pieces of light.
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And Dick wrote a lot of other novels that were called realist novels, some of which have been lost.
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Her 1887 verse drama seems a direct response to this psychological realist trend.
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After all, even a social realist painting like Courbet's Stone Breakers turned his
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Webster's play violates the principles of realist drama, which drew on Romantic notions about the superiority and universality of text.
Academic text (2017) -
The narrative economy of GraceLand, however, disrupts the reassurance of understanding and knowing invoked by Abani's realist descriptions.
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Whereas Marino daringly piles one metaphor on another, Caravaggio's conceits are compact; they barely disturb the realist fabric of his canvases.
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As a realist, she focused on painting landscapes that reflected the true colors and shapes of nature.
Synonyms
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A person who thinks art and how we see things should match real life
An artist who makes art of real people and places
A person who makes or studies art and ideas that show everyday life and social problems
Antonyms
- Literature
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An artist or writer from the 1800s who valued strong feeling and individual ideas
Compounds
- Offensive
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A person who believes people of different races have natural, important differences
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word realist comes from real, which goes back to the Latin res meaning 'thing', and the ending -ist meaning 'a person who'. So an artistic realist paints ordinary 'things' as they really are, not as beautiful or romantic versions.