Compare and contrast Romantic art (Goya, Delacroix, Ingres, Barye, Turner and the Hudson River School) with Realist art (Courbet, Millet, Daumier, Repin and Tanner) in terms of subject matter, style and public exhibitions. What big ideas did the Romanticists and Realists share? Discuss how both of these groups weakened the power of the French academy in the nineteenth century.

Romanticism is a literary artistic movement considered the most important form of narrative genre written in prose. Its evolution comes from the romanesque history in the Middle Ages. The word romance began to be introduced in the literary scene from the eighteenth century. Romanticism contributed to the literary system by maturing the novel and affirming it as a literary genre. It is a cultural manifestation in which there are traces of modern tastes and sensibilities.

Realism was also an artistic movement where it sought to show what it really is. It is considered an escape from excessive adoration of romanticism to material things. And it presents itself more real than romanticism.