These views endeared Holmes to the later advocates of legal realism and made him one of the early founders of law and economics jurisprudence.

He became an ardent and outspoken advocate of realism and, thereafter, of Wyclifism; charges of which were constantly getting him into trouble.

Talma was among the earliest advocates of realism in scenery and costume, being aided by his friend, the painter Jacques-Louis David.

The advocates of realism stood against the idealism of the tradition-bound academic art that enjoyed public and official favor.

Courbet became an outspoken advocate of "realism," a modern approach that was frank in style and unsentimental in expression.

He was a strong advocate of the Soviet art theory and Socialist realism.

An advocate of realism in international relations, Gotlieb became known as a skillful and respected player in the complex world of Washington power politics.

He became America's leading advocate of realism, not only in the uninterrupted stream of paintings, watercolors, lithographs, book illustrations and other works that flowed from his studio until recent days, but also in occasional public talks and writings.

Georg Lukacs, doubtless the most sophisticated advocate of socialist realism, makes this point quite forcefully in his analysis of contemporary realism written in the aftermath of the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in 1956.

No one is ever taken to task for making such ludicrous remarks, but as an advocate of figurative realism I'm continually accused of being a reactionary who hates modern art and wishes to impose realism upon everyone - which is utter nonsense.