To paint things 'that really exist and as they really look'. This was a movement started in the middle 1800's - France. The goal is to depict real scenes usually including the 'common people' at work or as they really were and paint them in a scale that up to that point was usually reserved for historical subjects, significant people or religious subjects. No romantic or staged representation, people and scenes the way they really looked.
Historical setting
- the period of time just after the French revolution and during the infancy of the 'new democracy' in France. Artists included in this movement- Jean Francois Millet, Gustave Courbet, Edward Manet.
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Realist Painting Jean-Francois Millet-'Burial at Ornans' / GustaveCourbet-'The Gleamers' |
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