... exhibiting works in a context that people were not able to relate to. A classic example of one of his paintings would have to be 'Burial at Ornans'. In this painting, inspired by the death of his grandfather, he expresses realism as a form of not only painting the truth, but, to an extent, as a means of escaping, at the time, the modern characteristics needed from art. The painting shows a crowd of people attending a funeral. However, we do not know whose funeral this is. The colours are bland. We can relate to this dullness created by the impact of the greys. What I mean is that the painting shows to the onlookers that it is portraying a normal funeral. It is showing the reality of a funeral, a reality of life. The colours show a certain element of depression in the painting. Before this painting, the only ...

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