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The term is much criticised, but implies a frank and unidealized portrayal of real life, especially of the working classes and agricultural workers (in contrast to Jean-François Millet's idealized paintings of field workers), and locales such as factories, mines and popular cafés. See also the writers Emile Zola, Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant.
From around 1872.
The term is most often associated with the following artists, though it could equally apply to most of the movements leading up to cubism.
Pont-Aven is a town on the coast of Brittany frequented by artists in the late 19th century (1886-1888).
See also Stéphane Mallarmé, Paul Verlaine, Huysmans, Symbolist painters.
The expression comes from the Hebrew word for "prophets"; from around 1888.
Fauvism, or Les Fauves means "wild beasts". They first appeared at the salon of Autumn 1905-1908.
"Cézanne period" (1907-1909); "Analytic period" (1909-1912); "Synthetic period" (1913-1914).