Since the 18th century Romanticism dominated French literature, Romanticism depicted scenes and ideals from the Romantic movement. Realist, however rejected this movement as they did not agree with portraying exotic or profound emotional displays in art, rather realism was to portray reality and truth for what it was. Realism works of art sometimes depict much of the same characteristics as modern photography, displaying scenes in the purist form, in most cases showing the "not so beautiful" in the interest of displaying truth. Although the realism(art) movement was not noticed as such until the mid 19th century, it derives from the term
Since the 18th century Romanticism dominated French literature, Romanticism depicted scenes and ideals from the Romantic movement. Realist, however rejected this movement as they did not agree with portraying exotic or profound emotional displays in art, rather realism was to portray reality and truth for what it was. Realism works of art sometimes depict much of the same characteristics as modern photography, displaying scenes in the purist form, in most cases showing the "not so beautiful" in the interest of displaying truth. Although the realism(art) movement was not noticed as such until the mid 19th century, it derives from the term