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Realism in the Visual Arts

Realism in the Visual Arts. 1830 - 1870. Characteristics. Response to Industrial Revolution Depict a real scene with journalistic detail Workers/ordinary people More horizontal compositions Shows a real moment i.e. half a person on the edge of frame. Adolph Friedrich Erdmann Von Menzel

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Realism in the Visual Arts

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  1. Realism in theVisual Arts 1830 - 1870

  2. Characteristics Response to Industrial Revolution Depict a real scene with journalistic detail Workers/ordinary people More horizontal compositions Shows a real moment i.e. half a person on the edge of frame

  3. Adolph Friedrich Erdmann Von Menzel Iron Mill (Das Eisenwalzwerk – Moderne Zyklopen) 1875. Oil on Canvas.

  4. Käthe KollwitzMarch of the Weavers from the series "The Weavers Cycle“1897. Print on etching

  5. Photography • “Writing with light” • Authentic record of the past • Created a dilemma for artists • Imitate nature – no photography • Capture nature – photography • Shunned early on • Primarily used for portraits and mugshots

  6. THOMAS ANNAN CLOSE, No 28 SALTMARKET (1868) Photograph

  7. Julia Margaret Cameron

  8. Julia Margaret Cameron

  9. Julia Margaret Cameron

  10. Mathew B. Brady

  11. Mathew B. Brady

  12. Mathew B. Brady

  13. Jean-Francois Millet The Gleaners 1857, Oil on canvas

  14. Gustave Courbet The Stone-Breakers 1849. Oil on canvas.

  15. Gustave Courbet Burial at Ornans 1849 – 1850. Oil on canvas. 10 ft. 3 in. x 21 ft. 9 in.

  16. Edouard Manet Luncheon on the Grass (Dejeuner sur l’herbe) 1863. Oil on canvas.

  17. Edouard Manet Olympia 1863. Oil on canvas.

  18. Winslow Homer The War for the Union: A Bayonet Charge Published in Harper’s Weekly, July 12, 1862.

  19. Winslow Homer The Gulf Stream 1899. Oil on canvas.

  20. John Gast Manifest Destiny 1872

  21. Skyscrapers William LeBaron Jenney Home Insurance Building, Chicago, IL, 1883  Sullivan and Adler Guaranty Building, Buffalo, 1894-95

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