The Nineteenth century

The arts in this period were a lot influenced by history facts as the French Revolution and the wars occured under Napoléon reign, the Barbizon school revived the interest in landscape painting. The romanticism championed subjective emotion, the taste for exotic subject matter and the artist's independence from social purpose, various currents of realism had notable exponents in Honoré Daumier, J. B. C. Corot, and Gustave Courbet, the romanticism is also characterized by ginving much importance to naturalism.

The great artist Édouard Manet represents for many critics the evolution from nineteenth century art to the modern art, he was a French painter, one of the first nineteenth century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks The Luncheon on the Grass and Olympia engendered great controversy, and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism—today these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.

There are also famous painters as Claude Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Pissarro. And at the end of nineteenth century the Post-impressionism was well represented by artists as Seurat, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Gauguin. And in sculpture there are famous artists too: François Rude, A. L. Barye, J. B. Carpeaux.

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