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History of Art Realism Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) and Jean-François Millet (1814-75) were the catalysts to the explosion of Realism. They were in favour of the working classes and the portrayal of the 'real' everyday life. They wanted to shock the bourgeois by their direct style and outrage respectable artists. They were both political anarchists, nobody ever painted the poor people working in the fields; Courbet and Millet glorified the figure and the subject matter in the style of classical history paintings of the Academy. They used in paint in a colourful way trying to emphasise the natural outdoor light of the countryside. Their pictures were strongly modelled to show strong form and shadows. According to the classification of art historians, Courbet is the first great Realist among the painters of the 19th century. Courbet was born in Ornans and was in Paris by 1839, working under a minor painter in...

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