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 as visual art and includes painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, photography and work made using digital media. 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 or transparent qualities. For further information please follow thus link. Paint is made up from three main things: pigment, to give it colour; a medium, (such as oil) which is used to support the pigment; and 38 something to thin it down, such as water or turpentine. 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'.