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Realism (1850 - 1880) Realism is defined by the accurate, unembellished, and detailed depiction of nature or contemporary life. The movement prefers an observation of physical appearance rather than imagination or idealization. In this sense, Realism can be found in movements of many other centuries. The mid 19th century Realist movement chose to paint common, ordinary, sometimes ugly images rather than the stiff, conventional pictures favored by upper-class society. It was an opposition to the traditional approach to Neoclassicism and the drama of Romanticism. Furthermore, advocates of the style were no longer preoccupied with the expectations of the Salons, Academies, or other art institutions. Realists strived to paint scenes as they actually appeared. Often the artists depicted ugly and common subjects that normally alluded to a social, political, or moral message. Never really becoming a solid, unified movement, the closest Realist group was the Barbizon School of landscape pain...

Venus Anadyomène Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) Title: Venus Anadyomène Year: 1848 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 164 × 82 cm (64.57 × 32.28 in) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1848_Jean-Auguste-Dominique_Ingres_-_Venus_Anadyom%C3%A8ne.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jean_Auguste_Dominique_Ingres This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) Title Deutsch: Der Sündenbock Français : Le bouc émissaire English: The Scapegoat Date 1854 Current location Lady Lever Art Gallery Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Holman_Hunt_-_The_Scapegoat.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Mattes/Favorite_files/Images/B/Arts/Paintings/1

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848-1854) The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form a seven-member "brotherhood". The group's intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach first adopted by the Mannerist artists who succeeded Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art. Hence the name "Pre-Raphaelite". In particular, they objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts. They called him "Sir Sloshua", believing that his broad tec...

Selfportrait of Gustave Courbet Gustave Courbet (Auto-Retrato) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Courbet History of painting This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. 1819 births | 1877 deaths | People from Doubs | French painters | French anarchists | French socialists | Realist painters | People of the Paris Commune | Légion d'honneur refusals