Art

Realism was the main artistic style between the 1830s and 1870s, its main field was painting.They portrayed the social situation as it was. Hence, some of them denounced the social injustice that some groups lived.
Most of the realistic painters were from France:

  • Gustave Courbet. He was the most important French realistic painter and showed common daily aspects from peasants and people of the bourgeoisie. Some of his main pieces are Burial at Ornans or The artists’s studio.
  • François Millet. His pictures show the daily habits of the peasants and their daily work, as he did in The Angelus
  • Honoré Daumier. He denounced the social injustice by portraying the conditions of the workers and their demonstrations. He was also a quite well-known caricaturist.  The third-class carriage.

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