against any kind of emotion
As a way to express their disagreement against the dramatism and extreme expression of feelings made by Romantic artists. The artists of Realistic movement.
"The Realist movement in French art flourished from about 1840 until the late nineteenth century, and sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life. Realism emerged in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1848 that overturned the monarchy of Louis-Philippe and developed during the period of the Second Empire under Napoleon III." (Finocchio, Ross. "Nineteenth-Century French Realism". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm (October 2004)
Gustav Courbet, one of his greatest promoter and beginner stated that " "painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist in the representation of real and existing things." (op cit, 2004)
"The Realist movement in French art flourished from about 1840 until the late nineteenth century, and sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life. Realism emerged in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1848 that overturned the monarchy of Louis-Philippe and developed during the period of the Second Empire under Napoleon III." (Finocchio, Ross. "Nineteenth-Century French Realism". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm (October 2004)
Gustav Courbet, one of his greatest promoter and beginner stated that " "painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist in the representation of real and existing things." (op cit, 2004)
It was during these years, when artists shared there work through exhibitions or contests created in Paris. When Courbet´s artworks were rejected for the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855, he displayed his paintings privately.
During the same period Jean Francois Millet, created great works about rural life that enlarged the work of peasants and artisans, creating scandal in the pretentious French society. Most of the time, realistic artists avoided representing emotions and feelings by hiding or making unfinished faces, thus this way, feelings were completely hid. Look for the webpage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to read more about this. In Italy, there was an important tendency presenting, what they called as Neorrealism just after World war II, in which poverty increased terribly. Great examples of these, can be "Ladri de biciclette" de Luccino Visconti (1948). Take a look at this movie: You can get into the blog and post a contribution about this topic.
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