Realism.
19th century Poet Charles Baudelaire described Romanticism in art and literature as "precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling."
When art and literature moved away from romanticism, a feeling rather than the concrete, it shifted to realism, the concrete.
Realism depicts the world, the events in it, and its people as they really are. There is no personification of people as mythological beings, no one is glorified, there was no romanticizing of anyone or anything.
The focus of Realism is on the common man - a social commentary on the world in which we live; it depicts ordinary people and shows the rest of society what their lives were really like.
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In "news from our neighbors to the north," the Truro Daily News is reporting that the Professional Living Artists of Nova Scotia group has a goal to raise the profile of realist painting in Nova Scotia.
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