Realism was an artistic movement through which artists and authors tried to convey honest, objective, and authentic representations of the world. In contrast to its predecessor, romanticism, which emphasized emotion and imagination, realism stressed empirical reality. There was a belief among realists that science was the solution to the problems of everyday life, so many realist paintings depicted day-to-day life.
Many painters of this art movement also shared a sympathy for the poor and common people, and therefore often sharply criticized contemporary society. Because of this as well as its emergence soon after the 1848 revolutions, it was considered a new medium of revolutionary fervor. Although it is true that many of its supporters were radicals, there was no one political group that it attracted. All realists, however, agreed that the lower classes had the right to artistic representation.
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