Realism | Impressionism is rooted in the traditions of Realism, where painters such as Courbet and Manet aimed to depict scenes from real life. This stood in contrast to the acceptable subject matters at the time that focused on the ideal beauty and mythological themes.

Realism
Real people
Depiction of real-life struggles

Not realism
Posing to the viewer
Ideal beauty
No sense of real-life struggles

Édouard Manet, Olympia, 1863, oil on canvas, 51.1 x 74.8 in., Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1534, oil on canvas, 47 in × 65 in, Uffizi, Florence.

Realism | Impressionism is rooted in the traditions of Realism, where painters such as Courbet and Manet aimed to depict scenes from real life. This stood in contrast to the acceptable subject matters at the time that focused on the ideal beauty and mythological themes.

Realism
Real people
Depiction of real-life struggles

Not realism
Posing to the viewer
Ideal beauty
No sense of real-life struggles

Gustave Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849, oil on canvas, 65 x 94 in., Destroyed during World War II.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Shepherdess, 1889, oil on canvas, 62.5 x 36.75 in., Philbrook Museum of Art, Oklahoma.