(or against) political and social situations during the time. Romanticism was a movement

against the ideas of the Enlightenment that had been ingrained into European people since

the early 1700s. The Enlightenment emphasized reason and uniform ideals in the arts.

Romanticism can be seen as a direct revolt against the Enlightenment. Romantic artists

constantly strived for unique and different ideas, whereas the thinkers of the Enlightenment

valued uniformity. (Art Periods: Romanticism) Realism, in contrast to Romanticism, showed an

objective, unemotional view of the world. The goal of Realist artists was to record an

impartial view of the ideas of French society in the 19th century. The major contributor to

the development of Realism was the social and political unrest in Europe in 1848. The French

painters reacted to the three-day revolution in February of that year. At the end of the

revolution, Louis-Philippe resigned, which led to several consecutive disorganized

governments that attempted to lessen the severe unemployment problems. Realism began to

depict ordinary workers and farming

Wain was unique in that the paint was partially applied with a palette knife, but it was

Romantic genre scene by Constable, The Stonebreakers by Courbet is a perfect example of a

the Realist Movement. In a letter to a group of students in 1861, he writes his basis for

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