Exploring Realism: An Artistic Movement in the 19th Century

Realism was an artistic movement that emerged in France in the 1850s, challenging the predominant Romanticism by depicting real and typical contemporary life with truth and accuracy. Led by main realist painters like Gustave Courbet, Realism sought to capture ordinary people and situations, embracing the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions.

• Realism
• Art Movement
• 19th Century
• Gustave Courbet
• French Painting

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1. Realism art movement

2. Beginnings Realism was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s, after the1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement.

3. Basic characteristics Instead emotionalism and drama realists sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy, and not avoiding unpleasant or sordid aspects of life. Realist works depicted people of all classes in situations that arise in ordinary life, and often reflected the changes brought by the Industrial and Commercial Revolutions.

4. Main realists Jean D sir Gustave Courbet led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting;

5. Gustave Courbet The Stone Breakers

6. Gustave Courbet Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet

7. Gustave Courbet After Dinner at Ornans

8. Gustave Courbet Sleep