Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Classical Realism sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Classical Realism (1982 – Present), it traces two movements that shaped it, all well-established links: Academic art and Realism; it runs alongside two parallel movements, a mix of well-established and looser, indirect links: Hyperrealism and the Kitsch movement.
Classical Realism is an artistic movement in the late-20th and early 21st century in which drawing and painting place as high value upon skills and beauty, combining elements of 19th-century neoclassicism and realism.
The term Classical Realism first appeared as a description of literary style, as in an 1882 criticism of Milton's poetry. Its usage relating to the visual arts dates back to at least 1905 in a reference to Masaccio's paintings. Read more ↗