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Why did realism as a movement in a art develop in the 19 century

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Realism coincided with the spread of photography in the mid-nineteenth century. It developed in reaction to the imaginative approach of romanticism as well as to the restrictions of "academic" art, which was considered to be always about an idealized past and never about the flesh and blood present.

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the realist movement started (in france during the 1800's) because artists wanted to break away from the usual and formal art styles and subjects that people originally used. so they created objective and unemotional works that were full of detail and imaginative flourishes.

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