This is a common concept in artistic creation, especially painting, sculpture, literature and drama. In a narrow sense, it belongs to the category of plastic arts, especially painting and sculpture. Whether facing real objects or imaginary objects, painters are always depicting a real substance rather than an abstract symbol. This kind of creation is usually referred to as realism. Following such creative principles and methods is called realism. The concept opposite to realism (or concreteness) is abstraction. People can receive information through sensory knowledge, analyze and organize it, and express it in any way with nature as the theme (such as natural scenery or current affairs), but they also have different experiences because of different growth environment and cognition. Through this organization, the presentation of works with the same theme is different.
At present, most of the paintings we come into contact with are realistic. Although many of them are exaggerated or distorted, and even can't distinguish the objects they represent, such as Picasso's The Girl of avignon, they are still called realistic works. There are few truly abstract works, and Kandinsky and mondriaan are the representatives of modern abstraction.
At the beginning, seven barbizon school painters lived in seclusion in barbizon village near Fontainebleau Palace. They are keen on depicting natural scenery and rural life, among which Rousseau and Ye Mi are the most famous. Rousseau painted landscapes, Miller's peasant paintings were simple and touching, and Evening Prayer and Gleaning reflected real rural life. The most famous realistic painter is Courbet, who reflects the life of the people at the bottom, such as "gravel".
Realism pays attention to life, life and reality. In terms of specific techniques, it is necessary to be realistic and realistic rather than abstract. What is the scope of realism? Is there a boundary? In 1950s, French neo-realism writers and artists put forward infinite realism. Realism is boundless, that is, it can be boundless in concept and ideographic form. This formulation expands the connotation of realism and gives it new content. Realism is a unique artistic phenomenon in the process of artistic development, which refers to the artistic trend of thought produced in the19th century, also known as "realism". This genre adopts realistic artistic creation methods. Realistic artists praise nature and labor, showing a broad picture of real life profoundly and comprehensively, especially depicting the lives and struggles of ordinary workers. At this time, workers really become the main image in painting, and naturally they are favored by realistic painters as an independent subject. Lie Bin of Russia is its representative painter. After the October Revolution in the Soviet Union, modern oil painting was not recognized as art, and realism was the most respected. All Soviet painters think this is realism.
Soviet experts who came to China at that time belittled the ink landscape of Chinese painting as abstract, but only after a visit to Huangshan did they admit that the ink landscape was realistic, which was the highest evaluation of painting by the Soviets.
Before the Cultural Revolution, China also emphasized that art must be "a combination of revolutionary realism and revolutionary romanticism". After the Cultural Revolution, painting really flourished.