Figurative Painting
Painting that keeps figures and places recognisable while taking different positions on society and reality through its choice of subject, degree of idealization and treatment of the brushstroke.
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- Romanticism c. 1790–1850 / Stil
Romanticism pushed beyond reason and rule toward emotion, the sublime, overwhelming nature, revolution and exceptional events through dramatic light, diagonal force, turbulent brushwork and extreme scale.
- Realism c. 1840s–1880s / Stil
Nineteenth-century Realism replaced myth, idealization and heroic drama with contemporary workers, peasants, urban life and familiar places, changing which subjects could occupy serious large-scale art.
- Naturalism c. 1870s–1900 / Stil
Naturalism extended Realism's contemporaneity through close observation of how environment, heredity and working conditions shape bodies and behavior, often using outdoor light and causally legible detail.
- Academic Art 17th–late 19th century / Stil
Academic art joined institutional training in drawing, anatomy and the antique to a hierarchy of subjects, controlled contours, ideal bodies, legible historical narratives and polished surfaces that conceal the brush.