Realism is a style of painting that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see.
Realists render
everyday characters, situations, dilemmas, and objects, all in
verisimilitude. They tend to discard theatrical drama, lofty subjects and
classical forms in favor of commonplace themes.
Gustave Courbet is credited with coining the term.Realism appears in art as early as 2400 BC in the city of
Lothal in what is now
India, and examples can be found throughout the history of art. In the broadest sense, realism in a work of art exists wherever something has been well observed and accurately depicted, even if the work as a whole does not strictly conform to the conditions of realism. For example, the proto-
Renaissance painter
Giotto di Bondone brought a new realism to the art of painting by rendering physical space and volume far more convincingly than his
Gothic predecessors. His paintings, like theirs, represented biblical scenes and the lives of the saints.
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