1. Art 20 th century - Present Art

2. REALISM (1848-1900)  Characteristics  Celebrated working class and peasants  En plein airrustic 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 Désiré Gustave 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. Realism  Jean-François Millet Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers Woman Baking Bread The Sower The Gleaners

13. Realism QUIZ –True or False 1. The Realism movement came before Romanticism. 2. Realism tried to depict “real-life”. 3. Realist paintings are usually of people in high government positions. 4. Camille Corot is best known for painting landscapes. 5. Gustave Corbet attempted to make bold social statements through his work. 6. Corot painted “The Burial at Ornans” 7. Daumier painted many caricatures that made fun of public political figures. 8. Millet is best known for his scenes he painted of peasant farmers.