(1800) Realism

o Was a mid-nineteenth century art movement and style in which artists discarded the formulas of Neoclassicism and the theatrical drama of Romanticism to paint familiar scenes and events as they actually looked.
o Typically it involved some sort of socio-political or moral message, in the depiction of ugly or commonplace subjects.
o Daumier, Millet and Courbet


Gustave Courbet
"The Stone Breakers"
1849
Oil on canvas, 165 X 267