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Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1840s, around the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy. It did not avoid unpleasant or sordid aspects of life. The movement aimed to focus on unidealized subjects and events that were previously rejected in art work. Realist works depicted people of all social classes in situations that arise in ordinary life, and often reflected the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions. Realism was primarily concerned with how things appeared to the eye, rather than containing ideal representations of the world. The popularity of such "realistic" works grew with the introduction of photography—a new visual source that created a desire for people to produce representations which look objectively real. The Realists depicted everyday subjects and situations in contemporary settings, and attempted to depict individuals of all social classes in a similar manner. Gloomy earth toned palettes were used to ignore beauty and idealization that was typically found in art. This movement sparked controversy because it purposefully criticized social values and the upper classes, as well as examining the new values that came along with the industrial revolution. Realism is widely regarded as the beginning of the modern art movement due to the push to incorporate modern life and art together. Classical idealism and Romantic emotionalism and drama were avoided equally, and often sordid or untidy elements of subjects were not smoothed over or omitted. Social realism emphasizes the depiction of the working class, and treating them with the same seriousness as other classes in art, but realism, as the avoidance of artificiality, in the treatment of human relations and emotions was also an aim of Realism. Treatments of subjects in a heroic or sentimental manner were equally rejected. Realism as an art movement was led by Gustave Courbet in France. It spread across Europe and was influential for the rest of the century and beyond, but as it became adopted into the mainstream of painting it becomes less common and useful as a term to define artistic style. After the arrival of Impressionism and later movements which downgraded the importance of precise illusionistic brushwork, it often came to refer simply to the use of a more traditional and tighter painting style. It has been used for a number of later movements and trends in art, some involving careful illusionistic representation, such as Photorealism, and others the depiction of "realist" subject matter in a social sense, or attempts at both. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Дмитрий Евгеньевич Селиванов
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Francisco Barrachina
Ivan Vasilyevich Volkov
Роман Фашаян
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Вячаслаў Станіслававіч Аўгусціновіч
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Сергей Александрович Ульяновский
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Ivan Youlianovitch Romanovsky
Gustave Courbet
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Sergey Adashkevich
Jean-Marie Villard
Jean-Baptiste Robie
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Oswaldo Moncayo
Paul Vayson
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Philéas Félix Bermond
Đorđe Krstić
Arkady Rylov
Aleksandr Makovsky
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Konstantin Ivanovitsj Maksimtsev
Lieanid Ščamialioŭ
Mai Dantsig
Boris Arakcheev
Anton Barkhatkov
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Vladimir Bataev
Jauhien Zajcaw
Ivan Kulikov
Karlis Miesniekas
Alexander Rukavishnikov
Solomon Yudovin
Hjalmar Munsterhjelm
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Lyubov Orlova
Vital Cvirka
Pyotr Tselebrovsky
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