a group of artists who agree on general principles

a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style

a style of realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and became a dominant style in other socialist countries.

a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic mediums, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium.

An artistic movement of the late 1800s, originating in Italy and influential especially in grand opera, marked by the use of rural characters and common, everyday themes often treated in a melodramatic manner.

19th-century Russian literary realism that conveyed a critical picture of the society it portrayed.