Realism refers to a movement characterized by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however, the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way. In practice, realist subject matter meant scenes of peasant and working-class life, the life of the city streets, cafes and popular entertainments, and an increasing frankness in the treatment of the body and sexual subjects. The term generally implies a certain grittiness in the choice of subject. Such subject matter combined with the new naturalism of treatment caused shock among the predominantly upper and middle-class audiences for art. Realism is also applied as a more general stylistic term to forms of sharply focused almost photographic painting irrespective of subject matter.
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