HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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They represent people and things as they actually are, they focus on everyday people and ordinary landscapes.
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They use emotion and imagination in their artwork, they tend to be more abstract.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Romanticism is a 19th-century art movement that looked to nature as the source of truth and meaning and is characterized by a nostalgic perspective of indigenous cultures. Realism is a late 19th-century art movement that emphasized by gritty depictions of the working class and a focus on speaking-truth-to-power.
Detailed explanation-2: -Realism’s emphasis on detachment, objectivity, and accurate observation, its lucid but restrained criticism of social environment and mores, and the humane understanding that underlay its moral judgments became an integral part of the fabric of the modern novel during the height of that form’s development.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the horrors of the Civil War, romantic attitudes no longer captured the spirit of America. Instead, artists and writers turned to a new movement known as realism, which reflected a different view of life-unsentimental, honest, and often harsh or even ugly.
Detailed explanation-4: -Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life.
Detailed explanation-5: -In art and literature, realism expresses a message that depicts situations realistically, whereas romanticism illustrates messages by using fiction. Romanticism focuses on plot, hyperbole, metaphor and feeling. In contrast, realism focuses on characters, details, objectivity and separation of author and narrator.