Realism

The realism movement originated in France in the early 1850’s. The people who began this movement consider themselves people against romanticism. Realism focuses more on the accurate and truthful depiction of the subject (reality). This movement attempted to portray ordinary lives, problems, appearances, humble and lower classes. A lot of paintings were done at this time that showed people at work and the suffering, because at that time there was the Industrial Revolution being taken place.

Realist artists chose subjects from everyday life around them. Thus, some of the work of the French artists Gustave Courbet one of which is called  The Stonebreakers made in1850, Honoré Daumier, and Jean François Millet has been described as social realism.

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