Realism Realism in the arts may be generally defined as the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.
Gustave Courbet, After Dinner at Ornans, 1849
In its most specific sense, Realism was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. [1] Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century
Ilya Repin
Jules Breton
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