Artist: Édouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)

Date: 1863
Media: Oil on Canvas

Annotation: This article has a brief introduction from Met Museum about this painting. A portrait of a young Spaniards known as majos. Rejected by salon in1863. Its brushstroke and color has been appreciated by many artists.

Citation: "Young Man in the Costume of a Majo | Édouard Manet | 29.100.54 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Accessed February 12, 2017. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/29.100.54/.

Gustave Courbet's paintings are definitely a good example for showing the condition of different level of people in society.

Nochlin, Linda. Realism. Harmondsworth, Middlesex,: Penguin Books, 1978.

Starting with Courbet's painting of peasant life,  realism movement is a way to present the role between "reality" and artworks, which is different from the idealism and classical paintings and sculptures at the past.

Artist: Honore Daumier ( French, February 26, 1808 – February 10, 1879 )
Date: unknown
Media: Oil on Canvas

Annotation: This article describes many different Daumier's paintings and analyzed detailedly about the connection between his work, thoughts and the society.This painting showing the various expression of people gathering together. Some of them look painful, and some of them look like in sorrow. None of these face are cheerful. Most of them are suffered, which represents the piercing truth, issues of social problems, political corruption, and psychological turmoil in his period of time in society.

Citation: Bdoyle. "WORD: Honoré Daumier, ‘meeting of thirty-five heads of expression’." Bencodydoyle. June 24, 2015. Accessed February 12, 2017. https://bencodydoyle.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/word-honore-daumier-meeting-of-thirty-five-heads-of-expression/.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Annotation: The article is a brief introduction of the painting from the Met Museum. In this painting there is a woman sitting next to a table and a huge vase of flowers. She is gazing to something to her left with a casual gesture. This painting is a simple moment in life but it is still looks delectable and moving.

Citation: "Edgar Degas | A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?) | The Met." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Accessed March 05, 2017. http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436121.

Date: 1889

Medium: Zincograph on chrome yellow wove paper; first edition

Annotation: From this article I found that the women in the painting are met by Gauguin by the sea in Martinique. Gauguin saw this women everyday when he was in Martinique and these gestures interested him considerably. From my point of view, this painting shows a local costume behavior in Martinique with a exotic style comparing with what Gauguin experienced and made when he was in France.

Citation: "The Grasshoppers and the Ants: A Souvenir of Martinique, from the Volpini Suite: Dessins lithographiques | Paul Gauguin | 22.82.2-4 | Work of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art." The Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Accessed March 05, 2017. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/22.82.2-4/.

Gauguin's travel to Tahiti is really famous and created a considerable influence for his artwork. The primitive sprit of the place influences his color and forms in his artworks.

Date: 1880–1881
Media: Oil on canvas

Date: 1809
Media: Oil on Canvas