Realism

Realism

Artistic Movements, Periods and Styles in 5 Points

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Realism

 

• In the second half of the 19th century, Realism emerged in opposition to Romanticism and its idealized way of showing the world and social events.
• The birth of Realism can be dated to 1855, when the jury of the Universal Exposition of Paris rejected an emblematic painting by Courbet (The Painter’s Studio), and so he decided to inaugurate an independent salon, which he called “Pavilion of Realism.”
• Realism seeks to represent reality as it is, without intellectualizing it, without the pressures of historical and academic painting, without a complicated language.
• Because of its crudeness, the movement was often attacked as “obscene.” (There were some really provocative nudes by Courbet, such as “The Origin of the World”).
• Traditional motifs were replaced by genre subjects. Peasants and urban workers played the leading roles. It was a socially conscious art that defended the lower classes and supported leftist political movements. It elevated both the work and the worker. It was Courbet who hoisted a flag: “one that puts art at the service of man.”

 

Representative Artists: Courbet, Millet, Daumier, Corot, Fantin-Latour, Jules Breton.

Image: A Shepherdess with Her Flock (1893). Millet.

 

Recommended links:

Millet and his Peasants.

Artistic Movements from Neoclassicism till the End of the 19th Century.

The Founder of Realism.

When does Modern Art Start?

The Barbizon School.

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