Realism >o-o<

The artist that considered themselves 'realist' rejected the neo-classisim and romantic styles. the world in at the time was changing. People were moving to the cities and normally the people working in the factors were unskilled and poor. So romantic and the neo-classism style didn't fit. Realism represented everyday scenes and event as they actually looked.

One of the first realist is Gustave Courbet. He has painted many pieces but the one i'm going to talk about is called the Burial at Ornans. This painting is of a funeral in a normal town nothing over elaborate like in many paintings that have been created in the periods created before. Gustave painted the funeral for what he saw. People grieving and in black, a priest and a massive amount of people.
Another artist that was well known during this period was Edouard Manet. The painting will be The Railway which has a woman that looks like she's staring at the viewer holding a sleeping puppy. Then the little girl in the pictur has hr back turned to the viewer looking through the fence. In this piece you can see how different the style of painting is from Neo-classicism which looked like the character on the painting was coming to life. Where in The Railway it looks very airy like not standard form, with a freer look.