Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Romantic realism" in English language version.
For there is an element directly opposed to romanticism : it is realism. The true antithesis, then, is between romanticism and realism.
Romantic realism, long a powerful movement in American painting, has unquestionably waned since 1940. It has never disappeared, and some of its finest examples are recent ones, but it is significant that most of the painting reproduced here are by artist now dead or well past their middle years
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