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1. Definition: What is Realism Painting?

Realism also means factualism. From the skills and techniques speaking, it is realism; while from ideology and concepts speaking, it is factualism.

2. Realism Paintings Artists

Realism painters admire nature, extol labor and show broad pictures of the real life deeply and fully; especially they describe the life and struggle of ordinary laborers, the laborers become the subject of realism art indeed at the moment, nature is also favored by realist painters as an independent subject.

3. Realism Paintings Characteristics

The first is the authenticity of details, the second is the typicality of images, and the third is the objectivity of specific depicting ways.

4. History of Realism Oil Painting

As early as the 16th and 17th century, the paintings of Caravaggio, Vermeer, Daumier and many other painters have involved realistic factors, but even if Daumier, Corot or Barbizon school haven’t claim to be realism artists. In 1855 Paris, Gustave Courbet paintings were rejected by the expo, so he put up a "realistic exhibition shed" nearby the exhibition hall, where he exhibited more than 40 pieces of his realism artwork paintings and published "realistic declaration" to call for the depiction of the contemporary real life openly. At this time, realism art became a conscious painting movement.

5. French Realism Painters

During the first half of the nineteenth century of France, in the meantime of the prosperity of neoclassicism and romanticism, Daumier, Gustave Courbet, Jean Frangois Millet and some other realist artists adhered to describe real life as the highest principle. They paid close attention to the natural scenery and ordinary people, and they were opposed to the concept proposed by academism, that "elegant" paintings must show "noble" characters, with a distinct attitude and the pursuit of truth, leaving a batch of outstanding realism paintings landscape, such as The Third-class Carriage, The Wheat Sifters and The Gleaners. The painters’ pursuit of truth has a far-reaching impact on the development of realistic painting.

6. Russian Realism Paintings for Sale

Russian drawing in the last half of the 19th century also have distinct characteristics of epochal and realistic. Influenced by democratic thinking, realism paintings artists combined art with the struggle to transform society and improve the people's living standard together. A large number of outstanding painters advocated creating realism oil painting closely related to the masses, thus the development of Russian realistic art was promoted. Ilya Yefimovich Repin is the model of Russian critical realistic painters, and his masterpiece Barge Haulers on the Volga depicting more than ten figures who had experienced the deep hardship and torture of life, shocked every viewer's heart profoundly.

7. American Realism Art in 20th Century

During the first half of the 19th century, the United States kept extending its boundary; the industry, agriculture and commerce got a further development; therefore, realism paintings entered a new era. People usually regard John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) as the founder of American landscape painting. By now, genre painting was born. The subjects of American genre painting are directly taken from real life, depicting scenes and activities of people’s daily life and a large number of realism oil paintings still life, with a rich flavor of the time.

Because of the rapid development of American capitalism, the new millionaire became the first generation of art collectors; they imported a large number of European artwork, which simultaneously promoted the prosperity of realism paintings sale in US. In the second half of the 19th century, the glory of later Hudson River school emerged.

8. Famous Realism Artists

Gustave Courbet
Jean Frangois Millet
Ilya Yefimovich Repin
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

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