The terms Realism or Realist (in reference to an adherent of "Realism"), may refer to...

Art

• Realism (arts), the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation.
• Aesthetic Realism
• Dirty realism
• Fantastic realism (literature)
• Hysterical realism
• Literary realism, a trend, in early 19th century French literature, towards depictions of contemporary life and society as it is, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation.
• Magic realism
• Swedish realism
• Socialist realism, a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism.
• Social realism, also known as socio-realism, is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts working class activities.

Realism in the visual arts and literature is the depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. ... Aesthetic Realism is the philosophy founded by the American poet and critic Eli Siegel in 1941. ... Dirty realism is a North American literary movement born in the 1970s-80s in which the narrative is stripped down to its fundamental features. ... Fantastic Realism (Réalisme fantastique) was a movement which had its hour of glory in the 1960s, and whose founding act was the publication of the book The Morning of the Magicians (Le Matin des magiciens), subtitled Introduction to Fantastic Realism. ... Hysterical Realism, also called recherché postmodernism or maximalism, is a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization and careful detailed investigations of real specific social phenomena. ... Literary realism most often refers to the trend, in early 19th century French literature, towards depictions of contemporary life and society as it is, in the spirit of general Realism, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylized presentation. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Swedish realism is the period in Swedish literature that encompassed the last two decades of the 19th century. ... Roses for Stalin, Boris Vladimirski, 1949 Socialist realism is a teleologically-oriented style of realistic art which has as its purpose the furtherance of the goals of socialism and communism. ... A Diego Rivera mural depicting factory workers in Detroit Social Realism is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts working class activities as heroic. ...

Ethics

• Moral realism, the view in philosophy that there are objective moral values, and a rejection of moral relativism.

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

International relations

• Political realism, a set of theories in international relations that share a common belief that the primary motivation of states is the desire for military and economic power or security, rather than ideals or ethics.
• Liberal realism, a branch of 'political realism' that maintains that, despite the condition of 'international anarchy', there exists a 'society of states'.

It has been suggested that Defensive realism be merged into this article or section. ... The English School of international relations theory, also known as Liberal Realism, Rationalism or the British institutionalists, maintains that there is a society of states at the international level, despite the condition of anarchy (literally the lack of a ruler or world state). ...

Law

• Legal realism, a family of theories, developed the early 1900s in the United States and Scandinavia, whose essential tenet is that all law is made by human beings and, thus, is subject to human foibles, frailties and imperfections.

Legal realism is a family of theories about the nature of law developed in the first half of the 20th century in the United States (American Legal Realism) and Scandinavia (Scandinavian Legal Realism). ...

Philosophy

• Critical realism, a philosophy of perception which posits that while some of our sense-data can and does accurately represent external objects, properties, and events, other sense-data may not be accurate representations.
• Naïve realism, a common sense theory of perception which it is claimed is representative of most people's understanding and method of interpretation of their perceptions.
• Philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers.
• Platonic realism, is a philosophy which posits the existence of universals, originally described by the Greek philosopher Plato.

In the philosophy of perception, critical realism is the theory that some of our sense-data (for example, those of primary qualities) can and do accurately represent external objects, properties, and events, while other of our sense-data (for example, those of secondary qualities and perceptual illusions) do not accurately... Naive realism is the common sense theory of perception. ... Contemporary philosophical realism is the belief in and allegiance to a reality that exists independently of observers. ... Platonism is a philosophical term usually used to refer to the idea of realism regarding the existence of universals after the Greek philosopher Plato who lived between c. ...

Science

• Scientific realism, a view in the philosophy of science about the nature of scientific success.

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