REALISM: PAINTING THE ORDINARY PEOPLE
Ca Nguyen, Mary Leriche, and Alissa Longo
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| Gustave Courbet The Stonebreakers 1850 Oil on Canvas 63 x 8'6 |
Realist: sincere lover of the honest truth
1. Movement away from Romanticism: capturing reality took precedence over illustrating one dramatic moment in time.
2. Objectivity and accurate representation: artists strove to paint and draw their subjects the way they actually appeared.
3. Industrial Revolution: as modes of production began to change and the economy shifted to a capitalist one, an interest arose in the burgeoning laboring class.
4. Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto: according to Karl Marx, philosopher and social theorist, as western economies changed clear lines began to emerge between property owners (bourgeoisie) and laborers (proletariat).
5. Artists began celebrating the average working individual, the mundane activities of the ordinary people, and critiquing the apparent inequalities that manifested.
Works Cited
Eisenman, Stephen M. Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History. 4th ed. New York, NY: Thames & Hudson, 2011.
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