A Brief History of Realism

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

A Brief History of Realismexamines the influential 19th-century art movement that sought to depict life with truth, accuracy, and without idealization. Arising in France as a response to the emotional intensity of Romanticism and the grandeur of Neoclassicism, Realism focused on ordinary people, everyday scenes, and social realities. Artists such as Gustave Courbet, Jean-François Millet, and Rosa Bonheur rejected mythological and historical subj...