Realism or Fakeism
Which Image is Realism?
A - The Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine (Gustave Courbet)
The painting is a depiction of the Artist’s great-uncle’s funeral featuring the townspeople present in the burial.
Burial at Ornans
This artist created the Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet
DAILY DOUBLE! (Double Points)
Which Image is Realism?
C - The Gleaners (Jean Francois Millet)
The composition places the peasant family in the foreground - an unusual subject considering the richer classes of passengers directly behind them.
The Third Class Carriage
Their paintings are noted for their power and simplicity of drawing; with one of their paintings being "The Sower"
Jean-Francois Millet
Which Image is Realism?
B - The Stone Breakers (Gustave Courbet)
The main subject shows the farmer peasant tending to the tilled soil; sowing the crops as a simple young man doing another day of work.
The Sower
This artist is known for drawings satirizing 19th-century French politics and society, with one example being the "Third Class Carriage"
Honore Daumier