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Appreciation Basics - Early Art Period - REALISM - 1800 to 1880
Realism was a movement started
Gustave Courbet, and it refers to the subject of the pictures, not
the style. Realists preferred to paint images of thing that they could see,
reacting against those who painted imaginary or idealized stuff.
What not to say: a big red
signature that says "Courbet."
What to say: "His
journalistic approach to reproducing the facts of the real world gives me
chills."
