Realism
Jacques-Louis David, “The Oath of the Horatii” 1784
Caspar David Friedrich, “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog,” 1818
Jean-François Millet, “The Gleaners,” 1857
Gustave Courbet, “The Stonebreakers,” 1849
Realism resisting idealization things as they really are, appear depiction of subject matter truthfully without anything artificial avoiding anything implausible, like implausible emotions, implausible setting or conditions avoiding exotic, supernatural elements focus on everyday life
From the Enlightenment to Romanticism to Realism Minute observation of material, physical world Minute observation of social world, social reality, and isolation in the social Authentic depiction of inner world, emotional life All things given equal weight – the mundane versus the sublime