1. Art Art 20th century - Present

2. REALISM (1848-1900) • Characteristics • Celebrated working class and peasants • En pleinairrustic painting ---"in the open air," and is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors • Chief Artists • Corot • Courbet • Daumier • Millet

3. Realism • Realism in the arts may be defined as the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully • Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people • depictions of 'real' life • Realist painters used common laborers, and ordinary people in ordinary surroundings engaged in real activities as subjects for their works

4. Realism • Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot • French landscape painter • Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon School of France in the mid-nineteenth century.

5. Cowherd by the Water - Camille Corot

6. Farm in the Nievre - Camille Corot

7. Realism • Jean DésiréGustave Courbet • French painter who led the realist movement in 19th-century French painting • made bold social statements through his work

8. Gustave Courbet : Western Civilization

9. A Burial at Ornans

10. Realism • Honoré Daumier • works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century • Known for his caricatures of political figures and satires on the behavior of his countrymen

11. Homeopathic Doctors- Honore Daumier

12. The Gleaners Realism Woman Baking Bread • Jean-François Millet • Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers The Sower

13. Realism QUIZ –True or False • The Realism movement came before Romanticism. • Realism tried to depict “real-life”. • Realist paintings are usually of people in high government positions. • Camille Corot is best known for painting landscapes. • Gustave Corbet attempted to make bold social statements through his work. • Corot painted “The Burial at Ornans” • Daumier painted many caricatures that made fun of public political figures. • Millet is best known for his scenes he painted of peasant farmers.