Realism
Realism was the approach to art where scenes, people, and objects are depicted in as straightforward and as the would appear in real life, without idealizing them. Emerging after the Revolution of 1848 that dethroned Louis-Philippe and during the period of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. French society fought for democratic reform, and the Realists democratized art by depicting everyday, working class people. Realism rejected the exotic nature themes of Romanticism and was based upon observing the world.