Realism and Naturalism

painting faithful to actual appearance
subjects from everday life
- from present world
- real and visible
positivism: scientific fact "real"
- religion, myth, revelation, intuition, imagination: fictions, illusions
often rural subjects
make figures monumental for dignity of laborer
social statement about lower classes
Barbizon school near Fontainebleau

Courbet The Burial at Ornans 1848-1849
Millet The Gleaners 1857
Daumier The 3rd Class Carriage 1862
Eduoard Manet Dejeuner Sur l'Herbe (The Picnic) 1863