As an artArt refers to a diverse range of human intellectual and expressive activities and the outcomes of those activities. Within this context art is further defined... movement, Realism refers to the social realism of 19th century painters like Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Honore Daumier (1808-1879). They preferred to paintA coloured substance that can be thickened or thinned and spread over surfaces. Paint can be water soluble, oil or plastic based, and have opaque... nonidealised versions of the world, including depictions of poverty and ordinary life. In a more general sense, Realism refers to a type of art that attempts to re-create the world as it appears to be, without distortion or stylisation. In this sense, it is sometimes less ambiguous to use the term 'Naturalism'.