It is defined as the attempt to represent something in the natural world, events and people as truthfully as it appears without artistic conventions, alterations or imagination to how it really is. It has to be purely what it is meaning it is shown as though it was taken photographically.
It began in France and came about in the 1850s. This was after a period where artists moved away from reason and into creating art with historical and realistic accuracy.
Realism is the rejection of the artistic styles of Romanticism, subjectivism and imagination. The painting must be accurate and be ordinary as observed in the natural world. The ordinary and unexceptional lives of the middle and lower classes was portrayed by using this method to attempt to bring out problems, customs, appearances and much more of that time.
Realism is focused on the average everyday common man. This mean the working man was now able to be the subject of art. Realism is a social commentary which was pure and simple just as the humble working men who had not the money to have portraits made for them. This was a time where art was able to depict the ordinary people and their way of living.
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