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Explore Realism as an art movement capturing subjects as they are, without embellishment. Learn about artists like Courbet, Manet, and Tanner who portrayed everyday life with honesty and depth. Discover key works including "The Stone Breakers" and "The Luncheon on the Grass."
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Realism • Depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday life, without embellishment or interpretation. • Also, works of art which, in revealing atruth, may emphasize the ugly or sordid.
Artists to Know • Gustave Courbet– dark colors, men at work • Eduard Manet– “First modern painter,” wanted to be truly original • Henry O. Tanner– African-American painter, everyday life among poor blacks • Matthew Brady– Civil War photographer
Eduard Manet • The Young Flautist • Or, The Fifer