Is Realism the most important artistic movement in the twentieth century?
Actually, Realism ( Naturalism ) came to Europe in the 19th century in something like this order [1]: • As a movement in literature (Emile Zola) [2] • On to high theater through the influence of Ibsen • To France (the Theatre Libre of Andre Antoine) • Chekhov got it from Zola, Ibsen, and Antoine. • The Moscow Art Theatre got it from Chekhov (and here we re finally in the 20th century). Here comes the curve ball. Perhaps what s significant about 20th century theater is what s significant about all 20th-century art forms. Perhaps what makes it significant is: it reflects a change in thinking [3], similar to what happened in Physics. Physicists at the turn of the century inherited a two-hundred year old system based on the limited observations and measurements that could be made in Newton s day. The means of observing and measuring were constantly improving, and a lot of the tenets of classical physics were starting to contradict the observable phenomena. It was time for a New Physics, wh
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