Word: realistes
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Zola, said Mr. Copeland, in his accumulation of details may be called a realist, but in his massing of movements and men, he is certainly an idealist, but an idealist whose ideals were of the mud rather than of the sky. In one of his works he has taken the family of Bougon Macquart and carried them on through one book after another in all their adventures, a thing which no writer since Balsac has attempted, and by this means he gives a back-ground of the world and time which most modern French writers fail...
...tell which of these two methods of painting is the better, that is, which the more accurately expresses the effects and truths of nature. Art, we are given to understand, is the exponent of the true, the good and the beautiful, but it seems very doubtful whether either the Realist or the Impressionist gives us art in his paintings...
...said that there were two schools which are at the present time engrossing the thoughts of the artistic world,- the Realist and the Impressionist Schools. Realism is nothing more than detailism, the painting with the greatest possible technical accuracy of every feature of the subject in hand; while Impressionism is something not to be found in the sky above, the earth beneath, or the water below the earth; it is the generalizing, the expressing of merely the salient features of the subject...
Take, for example, the spade and notice how each school treats it. For the Realist of the Ruskin type it is a tool of wood and iron, every fibre, every grain, every slightest characteristic of which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion...
There are many reasons which make Hayward easier to begin with than the other Elizabethan dramatists. He is strangely modern, and takes almost after the realist of today, telling tales of home life in a homespun way. There is no poetry in his plays, and in this respect he is like Massinger. The latter is very skillful in his dramatic effects. His play, "A new Way to Pay old Debts," is the nearest approach to Shakespeare we have, with the single exception of "She Stoops to Conquer." But wonderful as Massinger and the others may be in their separate ways...