Realism

   Capitalist realism:
Emptiness filled with delusions (Empire, purity, abundance).The endless desire for more, bloated self-importance. Mechanical thinking. The only realities left: bodily and virtual ones.

Soviet realism:

“..the spirit of a people released; of a people free, at length, to warm itself at the hearth of human peace and comradeship and simple, spontaneous happiness.”

Realism: “Tranquility is a principle of inner order. Piero understood that excess movement and expression both destroy the visual painted space and compress the painting’s time to a momentary scene, a flash of existence. His stoic heroes are constrained and impassive. The stilled leaves, the hue of the first earthly dawn, the unstruck hour, give the things Piero created an ontological indestructibility."

—Z. Herbert.