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Question(s):  What is the age of realism?
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The Age of Realism is not just a literary age, as I orginally assumed to my own due to the nature of this assignment.  During the late eighteen hundreds through the early nineteen hundreds was the pinacle of a movement that expanded to all aspects of the arts during its time, the age of realism.  Realism is the technique chosen to implement these changes.  'During the late 19th century, and into the 20th century artists and musicians contributed to the idea of realism in the American setting.'("Wikipedia." Google. Wikipedia, 16/1. Web. 4 Feb 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_realism>. ). 'Each, though slightly different in concept or subject, was defining what was going on in front of his or her eyes, without imagining a past or a future. While it has been stated that American Realism was a Neoclassical movement borrowing from ancient classical interpretations of art and architecture, this statement is false. American Realism was actually the opposite; instead of reflecting back to antiquities, artists, writers and musicians were concerned with recording the grit and the true reality of the early 20th century in America.("Wikipedia." Google. Wikipedia, 16/1. Web. 4 Feb 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_realism>. )