In art in a broad sense, a true, objective, comprehensive reflection of reality by specific means inherent in the types of artistic creativity. Common signs of the method of realism is the reliability in the reproduction of reality. At the same time, realistic art has a vast variety of methods of cognition, generalization, and artistic reflection of reality (GM Korzhev, MB Grekov, AA Plastov, AM Gerasimov, TN Yablonskaya, P. D Korin, etc.) Realist art of the 20th century. acquires vivid national features and variety of forms. Realism is a phenomenon opposite to modernism.