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The art of making peace with how things actually are, not how they'd look better.
means An approach that represents things as they truly are, rather than as idealized, imagined, or wished for.
from From French réalisme, built on Latin realis ('actual, pertaining to things') — itself rooted in res, meaning 'thing' or 'matter.' The word surfaces in philosophy first, arguing that universal things have real existence apart from our naming them, then migrates into art and literature in the 1800s as a banner for painters and novelists who turned away from romantic idealization toward depicting ordinary life, ordinary people, and unflattering truth exactly as observed.
- origin
- Rose as a backlash against Romanticism's pretty lies
- courbet's move
- Painted peasants and stonebreakers like they mattered
- philosophy cousin
- Claims universals exist independent of what we think
- politics flavor
- Argues states chase power, not virtue, no matter who's in charge