Art History Realism

From a historical perspective, Realism stands as a pivotal reaction against the extravagances of Romanticism, emerging in a time rife with social and political upheaval brought about by the Industrial Revolution. Artists like Gustave Courbet, the movement’s vanguard, along with Jean-Baptiste Corot, Honoré Daumier, Henri Fantin-Latour, Édouard Manet, and Jean-François Millet, shifted the artistic lens from the fantastic to the tangible, painting the world around them with unprecedented fidelity.T