This Grade 11 Visual Arts summary on Realism covers the movement’s focus on everyday life and unidealized subjects, portraying human behavior and social issues with naturalism. This guide explores key artists and their works, ideal for students seeking to understand Realism’s cultural impact
- DJ 1/19 M-efocus
on realities post french
Revolution .
INTRODUCTION
·
·
Mid
attempt
19th
centuary
to describe human
portray what
behaviour and
they
surroundings
(77/"/[/j/ "I
painter sought to saw without
Idealising it
#DINOR EDATIMIEIR
·
subjects of common places and humble life
realism .
Naturalism
vs . focus
showcasing brutality of french government
·
- on
-realism :
concerned directly with what is absorbed by senses
while
dealing with the
working class .
-naturalism :
a term literture attempts to
applied to ,
apply · the inequalities between classes and atrocities
Scientific theories to art commited by the Government
T
· mocked power
(through lithographs
JJEAIN FIRAING DIS IMILIE I
Rue Transnonain f
The Gleaners >
figure placed/positioned similarly
> focus on rural life
to central figure in Delacroix's
Liberty leading the people
>
naturalistically depict -
landscapes The Third-class carriage
> still idealised compared
done with simple
to courbet (sentimental
The
drawing is
power and
economy of line (I e hands outlined
.
,
solid bodies bulk
indicated by stressing
,
the essential and
- associated ideas of avoiding the non essential .
)
art with socialism
CNSITE CDUIR BEI
realism in
techinal characteristics
technical
mastery
·
· bold and limited pallete
The Stone Beakers
compositional simplicity
&
·
·
strong and harshly modelled figures > unidealised
·
heavy impacts > depicts hard work in its true
*
Burial at Ornans
and
tiring for m
clothes ripped and tattered
modelled after funeral of his grand uncle > Mountain makes Workers
used people who had been to the funeral as models (new appear isolated
>
style
:
give realistic look at townspeople oformans a what it was like to live there
unusual to take and it such importance people
<
something ordinary give ,
were
Intrigued and desired more of this new realist
style
s this is not just the burial of courbets uncle but rather the burial of romanticism as a
style
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