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Art A Brief History
Jeffrey Swenskie
Module 10
04-6-07

French Realism was predominately a result of great political and social disruption. We can date back to 1848 as the principal time of Realism. The revolution in France led many artists to explore the idea of presenting experiences of the life that was around them. This included many paintings of poor and average people, who were not the average subject of previous artists. Realism and Naturalism was an idea of expressing the actual world around them. This was quickly embraced by other countries including the United States and Russia. Realism was opposed to the earlier notions of Romanticism and Neoclassicism and was supported by the view and belief of scientific methods. By the mid 1860’s, Edouard Manet became the unofficial leader of a group of artists which would take the French Realists tradition to a new level. These artists known as Impressionists began to paint outdoor images such as country sides, and such in......

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