... reference to at least one work by each artist mentioned in this statement. Realism is an approach to art in which subjects are portrayed in as straightforward manner as possible, without idealizing them and without following the rules of formal theory. Realism began as an artistic movement in the 18th Century in ... the left and the head of an old man projecting into the picture at the right. The Rue Transnonain was a street in Paris inhabited by workers who were suspected of participation in the disorders of the Republican Revolt in 1834. When it was fired on from an apartment, the civi...

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