Why was the art movement, Realism, originally rejected by the public and then later accepted?

(1848-1900) followed
Romanticism (1780-1850) in both the artistic world and the literary world. Realists were
initially rejected by the art community because the art of the period spoke against the art of
the earlier period (Romantic). Romantics tended to blur over the realities of life.

Realists, on the other hand, took a more...