Realism (Movements in Modern Art)
Realism in the art of the twentieth century is striking for its diversity.  Although not bound together stylisticlly or by a manifesto of intention, a common thread in realist art is a commitment to the modern world and to things as they appear, whether it be the domestic claustrophobia depicted in Sickert's "Ennui" or the social observation of urban nightlife in Weimar Germany in the work of Christian Schad and Georg Schrimpf.James Malpas also examines its varied and vibrant quality revealed in the "Pop Art" backlash in the United States and Britain, in the work of David Hockney, Richard Hamilaton, and Andy Warhol.