Introduction
Realism is an art movement which originated in France (Cabello, 2015). Because of this, the spread of realism in the world has been greatly affected not only by the artistic minds, but also by the different aspects of society which will potentially impact a movement or an artwork. These influences were greatly seen in the middle, to the latter nineteenth century where the art movement received various criticisms, especially by the mass media during that period, through the newspapers (Lloyd, 2013). This paper will show the different views of society upon the introduction of the Realist movement in the ...