This art movement (style) came about in the mid 19th century as a protest against the authority of academic art. instead of historical and exotic subjects, its main interest was in ordinary existence, life of commoners and social injustice.

The name of the art movement that sprang up in the mid 19th century—specifically in the 1840s—as a protest against academic art, but with interest in the common masses, was called “Realism” or the “Realist Movement”.

Explanation:

Realism was an artistic movement that originated in France in the 1840s—specifically during the aftermath of the 1848 revolution. The Realists—who were practitioners of Realism—created their drawings on the basis of social values and the everyday lives of the common and working class citizens; on the other hand, Realists rejected the practice of academic art and Romanticism, but sought to portray the experiences of people from each class of society and ordinary life.