Naturalism (8)

Naturalism: The skillful representation of the visual image, forms, and proportions as seen in nature with an illusion of volume and three-dimensional space.

This is also called realism or visual realism. It is concerned with the "true-to-life" visual appearance of everything.


This is Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks". Everything in the painting is to scale or as close to scale as possible and depicts the street corner as realistically as possible.


Here is a drawing of a woman that is done with pencil. This is naturalism because all the features of the face, hair, etc. are in proportion to each other. The artist focused on representing what is there and drew that instead of changing anything to make it more exaggerated or distorted.