Realism and Naturalism
STYLE
ARTISTS and IMAGES
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STYLE
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
ARTISTS and IMAGES
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
VOCAB
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