Sometimes the paintings I have the most impact on us are those that depict familiar scenes from our everyday lives. art that makes has powers to feel and think chief proponent realism. gustav Corbet believes that painting should represent real and existing things this was the driving force behind Israel’s one most important periods in French art this was a time of revolution the time when both the French Revolution and industrial revolutions for dramatic change across the world the first scenes a realist also referred to as naturalism were sown soon after the revolution and 1848 which included a wave over 50 countries in Europe and Latin America the French public’s desire for more dramatic reforms manifested in the realest art and literature now would flourish from the 1840s until the 1880s realists with the first generation of artists to adopt a highly scientific perspective in their art 3 the most influential thinkers were Charles Darwin Karl Marx and August compt.
1. Charles Darwin introduces the idea evolution and survival of the fittest which came to be considered a justification for the extreme wealth inequality of the time.
2. Karl Marx whose response to extreme wealth disparity was equal distribution increased worker rights under communist government.
3. In August Compt stressed the importance of positivism focusing on understanding the relationship between cause and effect.
In early times religion mythology and philosophy were considered the highest roots but during the mid and late 18 eighties more than ever before the world that people could see touch taste hear and feel was considered objective troops the French royal academy whose endorsement was significant for artists during this time South that good art should be beautiful classically inspired and in line with French morality realist artists challenged all these ideas by painting non idealized everyday scenes of middle class and poor people love modern times these themes were both a response an over idealization the romanticism and neoclassicism that came before and a reflection a new scientific worldview and concern for human rights realism bronte issues in lives the working class to the forefront painting a gritty picture up the harsh realities as well as beautiful joins have normal everyday lives realism in painting was an art of changing times realists abandoned classicism and romanticism referring to create compelling and socially critical pictures based on direct observations the world around them. common characteristics are realist art was a rejection artistic theory rules a break from religious and mythological. themes minimal idealization social criticism and a scientific lands realist art aim to trade people in scenes as the really were as aleader of the French realist movement loose tom Corbett used to rural and agrarian people from his native region as well as seems a nature on a monumental scale at the salon of Paris and 1849 1850 corn maze brilliant examples realist paintings took the nation by storm in particular the stone breakers and a burial Dornan’s have come to be regarded as groundbreaking paintings that challenge convention in modern perceptions the stone breakers shows the state of poor peasant workers during the Industrial Revolution it reveals the hardships that miners famers and peasants faced at the hands a factory owners and capitalists the motionless faces and mellow colors are melancholy while also informing us about the harsh realities faced by the working class Corbet is honest simplistic portrayal of day-to-day imagery was considered by critics as crude and even anti-authoritarian another example of Corby’s defiance of conventional art methods and perspective is young woman from the village which was exhibited at the Salon of Paris and 1852 the painting featured three young girls