Realism

Time Period: 1848-1860s

• Believed in painting things that one could experience with the five senses
• Lower classes and their environment 
• Shows basic honesty and sincerity missing among upper classes
• Subjects at one with the landscape; brown and ochre are dominant hues 

Pieces: 

• The Stone Breakers. Gustave Courbet. 1849 C.E. (destroyed in 1945). Oil on canvas. 
• Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art. Honoré Daumier. 1862 C.E. Lithograph.
• Olympia. Édouard Manet. 1863 C.E. Oil on canvas.
• The Horse in Motion. Eadweard Muybridge. 1878 C.E. Albumen print.