FiguresImportance of Realism in Art

Realism reflected a progressive and highly influential shift in the significance and function of art in general, including literature as well as fine art. For the Realistic artist, the world is a given and the sole aim of the artist is to describe this world. In attempting to see the world without the subjective, the artists were acting like positive philosopher.  Idealism was rejected and ugliness was accepted.

Thus Realism is a universal language that enables communication with all people and to people of all times–past—present —and future.

Modernist and Abstract art is not a language. It’s the opposite of language for it represents the absence of language and the absence of language means the loss of communication and  in the case of fine arts modernism banished the only universal language that exist…. Realism with the techniques and skill required to achieve it. A knowledge which had grown and developed and was carefully documented and presented as it was passed down for centuries from master to students.