Scenes of ordinary life painted in the realist and impressionist manner, which took funerals, interiors, fields and modern city subjects as serious themes for painting and treated them with direct observation and no idealizing. The group includes the painting by Gustave Courbet of a funeral in a small town, the American painting of a woman in a field and the modern reworking of an Olympia by Paul Cezanne.
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A Modern Olympia (Wikipedia)
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A Modern Olympia (French: Une moderne Olympia) is a c. 1873-74 painting by Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne.
Christina's World (Wikipedia)
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It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an inclined position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings adjacent to the house.
A Burial at Ornans (Wikipedia)
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It treats an ordinary, provincial funeral with frank realism, and on the grand scale traditionally reserved for the heroic or religious scenes of history painting.
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