01 Fundamentals of Arts

Editor's Notes

• #31: Surrealism - A style where realistic people, places, and things are juxaposed in non-realistic ways. Example: People enter through the window and look out the door. Symbolism - A response to realism by where all objects and events in a realistic play have a secondary meaning. Example: George kills himself with his father's gun. His father also killed himself, so the symbol suggests that history will always repeat itself. Naturalism - Extreme realism where verisimitude is more important than anything including plot, character, and idea. Example: A man sits in a chair and reads a book on stage for two hours while it rains out a window. Absurdism: A reaction to realism, growing from surrealism, that suggests that realism on stage can never be real and there for is already fake. So, the fakeness is embraced in order to find the real truths of human kind. Example: Waiting for Gogot
• #42: In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically, idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing.