Real Life or Realism Painting portrays the daily life as they appear to the artists, free from interpretations no matter what it may look like. The art form requires painting that reveals the truth and accuracy of the subject and upholds objectivity and reality that reflected on their paintings.
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Realist painters usually portray real life and actual situations, dilemmas and characters in their paintings and revolted on too many emotions in their paintings.
There are several schools that are practising realism such as:
- The Realists – an organization of international artists that love democracy and reject the old artistic tradition of painting. They concern themselves with scientific idea of vision and that they think that painters should be working on all things that is surrounding them.
Their artists include:
- Marie Rosalie Bonheur
- John Singleton Copley
- Gustave Courbet
- Honoré Daumier
- Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
- Thomas Eakins
- Ignace Henri Theodore Fantin-Latour
- Wilhelm Leibl
- Edouard Manet
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- Barbizon School – Named after the forest of Fonteblau, this school composed of French landscape artist that got away from Paris to create their own art. They tried to paint nature and helped establish landscape as important themes for several French artists.
Their painters include:
- Camille Corot
- Charles-François Daubigny
- Jean-François Millet
- Pierre-Etienne-Théodore Rousseau
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- The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – Mostly composed of English artists (painters, critics and poets), this organization rejected British academic arts and believed that nature is the main purpose of art.
There are other notable artists that had embraced Realism such as:
- Georg von Dillis
- Wilhelm von Kobell
- Friedrich Wasmann
- Friedrich von Amerling
- Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller
- Thomas Eakins
- Winslow Homer
- Francis Coates Jones
- James Abbott McNeill Whistler
- Thomas Pollock Anshutz
- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- William Holman Hunt
- Thomas Woolner
- John Everett Millais
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- William Morris
- Edward Burne-Jones
- Frank Cowper
- Simeon Solomon
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