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This painting arranges a community of people around a countryside 
burial site, complete with a Catholic priest, altar boys, and a deacon 
carrying a crucifix. The crowd is arranged in vivid detail around the 
central burial site. The human expressions are somber during the event. 
This is just a sample of what Realistic painting was like. 
Realism is not a term that can be applicable to music. There are verismo 
(realistic) operas such as Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier created in 
the last decade of the 19th century in Italy, but what is said to be 
realistic is the plot rather than the music itself. As "pure" untexted music 
is not usually representational (with the controversial exception of 
"program" music), it cannot be said to be more or less realistic. 
The most important representation of Realism is fiction, as it is through 
the writers’ works that artists could describe their reality as it was and 
the reader could perceive the crude reality being described. As poetry is 
the language of the heart, it did not lend itself for realistic writing. For 
these reasons, in our next lesson we shall focus our attention on the 
realistic writers.