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Realism(Art)

  • also can be known as naturalism, it shows non-idealized subject matter, true to what it actually looks like, started in 19th century France
  • Robert Campin, Jan van Eyck, Gustave Courbet early realism painters, but it started earlier with Ancient Greek and Egyptian art
  • this is the first movement to show everyday life in a bigger way: Kitchens scenes, markets etc.
  • reaction to Romanticism and Historical painting


/Susanna and the Elders (Artemisia Gentileschi, Pommersfelden)