Millet's goal - to suggest the gravity of their existence through a kind of religious transfiguration - involved remaking the Bible into pictures of modern realism.

Foreshortening, vanishing points and other devices of modern pictorial realism - techniques that artists in the Middle Ages lacked - can be found in blind art.

This strand of theory is sometimes called "modern realism".

Increasingly, magazine photographers are working in a style called modern realism, meaning they portray subjects with a sullen, disaffected or caught-off-guard look.

Both impressionism and modern realism were introduced to the stage during this period.

Her large dark eyes and expressive lips were drawn and shaded with an almost modern realism of technique.

In it she said "The need for modern realism does not negate the need for the classics and imaginative literature.

Auerbach proceeds with this comparative approach until the triumph of Flaubert, Balzac and "modern realism" (ch.

With an almost modern realism he reproduced the medieval setting of the play, at the same time not losing sight of the needs of the theatre.

Although he turned later to employ techniques of watercolor and oil painting, he still maintains his uniqueness in combining elements of traditional design and modern realism.