The main characteristics of realistic art

Generally speaking, anything that can fully express the typical characteristics of real life with images is called realistic works. Generally speaking, realistic works have three characteristics: first, the authenticity of details. There should be real details to reflect social life with historical and concrete life pictures. Realistic works infect people with the authenticity and concreteness of images, so they can make readers feel personally and see people. The second is the typicality of image. Through typical methods, the real life materials are screened, refined and summarized, thus revealing some essential characteristics of life. It can be said that typicality is the core of realism and a sign different from naturalism. The phenomenon of life is diverse and complicated. Recording life truthfully is just a photographer's skill. Realism requires the author to select meaningful characters and events from colorful real life, and shape typical characters and typical environments through personalized and universal artistic processing. As Engels said, it is necessary to "truly reproduce the typical characters in the typical environment". The third is the objectivity of specific description. Through the objective and concrete description of real life, the author naturally reflects the author's ideological tendency and feelings of love and hate from the scenes and plots of his works, rather than saying it himself or through the mouth of the characters. Emile Faguet, a French literary historian, explained: "Realism is an artistic proposition that clearly and calmly observes human events and then describes them clearly and calmly. ..... We should select the most meaningful rhyming events from thousands of real events, and then sort out these events to make them have a strong impression. " This is basically consistent with Engels' definition that "realism requires the true representation of typical characters in typical environments in addition to the truth in details". If realism is not simply understood as the inner truth of various realistic arts, but only as a set of principles and artistic methods of character description, then in western Europe, it is generally believed that realism was formed during the Renaissance. From Renaissance realism to1critical realism in the 1920s, and1enlightenment realism in the 8th century. Renaissance realism is famous for describing the vivid and rich feelings, desires and feelings of characters. It shows the sublimity of people, the integrity, purity and poetry of characters. However, it is not as realistic as the Enlightenment in analyzing social relations. The latter is more social and analytical, emphasizing that creation should have a clear social purpose and ideological education.