Around the 20th century, China's study of western painting realism was actually a realistic painting tradition in Europe with perspective, anatomy and chromaticity as scientific means and "imitation" and "reproduction" as aesthetic core.

From the perspective of European painting history, this kind of realistic painting is not all the "realism" concept put forward by Courbet, Champfleury and others.

Perhaps, at the beginning of the collision between Chinese and Western cultures, when Chinese people began to understand European reproduction art, artists who advocated realism in China could not clearly distinguish the school of "realism" from other painting schools with the same realistic spirit, such as classicism, neoclassicism and romanticism.

However, this does not affect their pursuit of European painting civilization with scientific realism.

Democratic Realism Art education in China has ushered in a good opportunity for development and change. We should seize the opportunity to absorb and reform reasonable theories according to the requirements of quality education and the present situation of art education in China. Foreign things serve China. Promote the development of art education in China.