How to distinguish romanticism, classicism, realism and modernism?

Romanticism is one of the basic creative methods of literature and art, and together with realism, it constitutes the two mainstream ideological trends of literature and art. Romanticism, as a creative method, pays attention to the subjective inner world while reflecting the objective reality, expresses the passionate pursuit of the ideal world, and often uses passionate language, magnificent imagination and exaggerated techniques to create images. Romantic creative tendency has a long history. As early as the oral creation period of human literature and art, some works had romantic factors and characteristics to varying degrees, but romanticism at this time neither formed a trend of thought nor was it a creative method that people consciously mastered.

2. About realism.

Realism, also known as "realism", holds that in human cognition, everyone's understanding and perception of objects are consistent with the actual existence of objects independent of everyone's mind. Generally defined as rejecting idealism about reality and reality. But realism can have many meanings in liberal arts and humanities (especially painting, literature and philosophy).

3. classicism.

Classicism (French: Le Classicisme English: western classicism) became popular in western Europe, especially France, in the17th century. Classicism, as a literary trend of thought, was popular in Europe for two centuries, and it was not until 19 th century that the rise of romantic literature and art came to an end. It was the most popular and developed in France in the17th century. The political basis of French classicism is monarchy, and the philosophical basis is Descartes' rationalism theory. Classicism emphasizes the imitation of ancient times in creative theory, and advocates the use of national standard language in accordance with prescribed creative principles (such as the three unifications of drama) and the pursuit of artistic perfection. Western classicism includes realism, abstraction, neoclassicism and so on. This trend of thought is the product of a specific historical period, and it is called "classicism" because it takes ancient Greek and Roman literature as a model in literary theory and creative practice.

4. About modernism.

From the historical perspective of culture, modernism is a new artistic and literary style that rose in the decades before 19 14. Is an artist, in order to resist the stereotype at the end of 19, he turned to express everyone's true feelings and thoughts in a way that he thought was more emotional. Modernism is based on science, emphasizing rationality and logic, and exploring evidence through experiments. Newton's mechanical theory, Darwin's theory of evolution and Freud's self-study laid an important theoretical foundation for modernism.