Realism in the arts is the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding artistic conventions, implausible, exotic and supernatural elements.
The important Realism artists:
Gustave Courbet Jean-F Millet Honoré Daumier Jean-B-C Corot Jules B-Lepage Vasily Perov
Ivan Shishkin Alexei Savrasov Arkhip Kuindzhi Ivan Kramskoi Vasily Vereshchagin Vasily Surikov

Ilya Repin James A M Whistler Hubert v Herkomer Luke Fildes George Bellows Robert Henri
The important Realism artists:






Gustave Courbet Jean-F Millet Honoré Daumier Jean-B-C Corot Jules B-Lepage Vasily Perov






Ivan Shishkin Alexei Savrasov Arkhip Kuindzhi Ivan Kramskoi Vasily Vereshchagin Vasily Surikov






Ilya Repin James A M Whistler Hubert v Herkomer Luke Fildes George Bellows Robert Henri
Realism-(1830-1870)