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Naturalism refers to a tendency in
European painting, between 1875 to 1918,
which was an alliance between photography
and Realism. Typical paintings were large,
with frozen composition as if they
were photographed. Jean-Leon Gerome, one
of the leading painters and teachers at
the Ecole-Arts in Paris recognized the
potential of the camera as a tool of the
painter. His students included Thomas
Eakins, Jules Bastian-Lepage and J.A.
Muenier.
Franz Roh strongly felt that Magic Realism
should avoid this type of "neutral" type
of realism as he disapproved of art
imitating photography.
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