Characteristics of the Realism Movement

Young Ladies of The Village 1852, Gustave Courbet

Subject Matters:

• Rural and Urban working class life
• Scenes of street life
• Scenes of cafes
• Frank approach to the body, nudity and sensual subjects

Source:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm