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We have only to turn to the preface to the Salon of 1833, written by Laviron, in the very heat of the most triumphant period of romanticism, to find that these ideas [of realism] were in the air and in the minds of those who fought the deficiencies and failings of romanticism, just as they fought those of classicism.
"Actuality and the social tendency of art," wrote Laviron, " are our chief concern; next come truth in representation and the greater or less skill in material execution. We demand actuality before all else because we desire the reaction of art upon society and its impulse towards progress. We ask truth of art because, to be understood, it must be alive."
These two apostles of modernity who came within twenty years of each other are only distinguished by their labels. Laviron baptized the new craftsmen of his work of reaction and progress "naturalists." Courbet called himself a realist but the word is no more particular to himself than his programme. --Gustave Courbet (Léonce Bénédite)




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