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REALISM KEY DATES: 1830-1870 Realism, also known as the Realist school, was a mid-nineteenth century art movement and style in which artists discarded the formulas of Neoclassicism and the theatrical drama of Romanticism to paint familiar scenes and events as they actually looked. Typically it involved some sort of sociopolitical or moral message, in the depiction of ugly or commonplace subjects. Daumier, Millet and Courbet were realists.  REPRESENTATIVE ARTISTS: Gustave Courbet Jean-Francois Millet Honore Daumier Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot J A MacNeil Whistler John Singer Sargeant