Thesis Statement: Realism, also called naturalism, is the movement where artwork was made based on the quality of representing a person, thing, or situation accurately. It avoids any kind of artificiality and questionable elements. Artworks made during the realism movement serve to show the struggles and lives of people during a specific moment. It shows them in their natural element rather than exaggerated or unnatural.

Artworks:

William Bouguereau, The Elder Sister, reduction, 1864, The Brooklyn Museum.

Anton Mauve, Digging Sand, 1875, The Brooklyn Museum.

Otto Dix, The Businessman Max Roesberg, Dresden, 1922, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Weinberg, H. Barbara, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1994, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Théodule-Augustin Ribot, Breton Fisherman and Their Families, 1880–85, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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