Thus, for the Naturalist, art should imitate nature. If a Naturalist is painting a portrait of a person who has a facial scar, the Naturalist will paint the scar because reality includes imperfection. For the Pragmatist, reality is not so easily pinpointed as it is for the Idealist and Naturalist. Reality is neither an idea nor is it matter. Rather, the Pragmatist believes that reality is a process .
Reality is more like a verb than a noun.
It is flux and flow where the concentration is not so much on the things as on the relationship between the things. Since everything changes nothing can have any permanent essence or identity . For the Pragmatist, everything is essentially relative. The only constant is change. The Americans William James and John Dewey are representatives of this view.