Today was our first in-person class since last week and we started with Francisco De Goya and how his painting portrayed a shift in art. The shift from romanticism to realism focused on realistic and not idealistic art. This style of art opened a door to more political messages being portrayed in art, which has been seen in other periods in history. We discussed other artists who thrived in the realism period like Jean Baptiste-Camille Corot who created a landscape painting of Rome. The Landscape focused on buildings, topography, and the facts of the sight being used. We established that we would see more artwork that was composed of real dealings in the world like Joseph Mallord William Turner and his 1840 painting of a slave ship. We also noticed how the shape was a choice in art like how Corot focused on the structure of the buildings and Turner used bright colors to portray the scene. We then focused our attention on a notable realist Jean Francois Milet and his politically focused portrait. Millet painted a faceless sower in the fields at dawn that we concluded was to shine a light on the exploitation of the working class. We also looked at another painting The Stone Breakers which was another political message for the public. A common message in realism was the working class and was portrayed like historical art. We then shifted to more realistic art like Rosa Bonheurl and Honore Daumier which would be used to reveal the truth. At the end of class, we shifted to American art from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins.