When this French artist moved from crowded Paris to the rural area of Barbizon just to the south of the city, he became the leading figure of a new art movement. Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) was a Realism artist who is famously known for his depiction of peasants in rural settings. Millet’s paintings are considered to …
When an artist rejects the conventional ideas of his time, a new art movement emerges. This is exactly what happened when a French painter rejected the ideals of the Romantic artists and the Neoclassical artists who dominated the world of art in the early 19th century. Let’s take a closer look at some of the …
Around halfway through the 19th century, the famous Romantic artists were replaced by artists who rejected the exaggerated emotions in art. They preferred to portray things as they really were without the added drama of the Romantic art movement. The Realism art movement emerged around the time of the 1848 Revolution in France and can …