...Realism into Impressionism: Relationship, Characteristics and Style of the Movements Western Governors University IWT1 Task 1 Realism into Impressionism: Relationship, Characteristics and Style of the Movements Throughout time, people have expressed themselves through art in many different forms. Whether it is architecture, literature, music or visual arts; the art form is influenced by the artist, their experiences, imagination, surrounding cultures and history. Some art movements are a drastic change from previous movements, whereas others carry on characteristics from other movements or revive a movement from centuries earlier. It was not uncommon for different genres to exist during the same time periods. Romanticism, Realism, Pictorialism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau, and Victorian Photography were all movements that existed in the 19th century and early 20th century. (MindEdge 3.03; 2014) Some of these movements were an escape or a rebellion against the norm of mythological or glorified subject matters. Two movements whose painters are often times considered to be members of both genres are the Realism and Impressionism movements, such as Edouard Manet and Edward Degas. However, what influenced one movement was not necessarily the reasons for the characteristics, style or subject choices of the other. Visual art and artists, during the mid to late 1800’s to the early 1900’s, observed many changes take place in France. The changes experienced with the...
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...to discuss the relationship between two periods of art. The Realism period will be compared to the Impressionism period. Visual art will be the discipline compared. A1. Earlier Historical Art Period The Realism art period flourished from the mid 1800’s until the late nineteenth century. Its roots started in France after the Revolution of 1848. The monarchy of Louis-Philippe was defeated and the period of the Second Empire began. The French Realist period grew under Napoleon III’s rule. French artists such as Gustave Courbet and Jean-Francois Millet used their paintings as political statements. As the French society looked for democratic reform, the artists of the time depicted working class people doing their everyday jobs. Not only were Courbet’s portraits criticized for their simple and crude style, but also for the scale of the portraits that depicted the often mundane and impoverished lower class. Their goal was to depart from the former Romantic era and portray people and events truthfully and often, “in gritty detail” (Finocchio, 2004, p.1). The artist’s subjects were not posed, smiling out at the world but rather caught in the act of living. Often the subject’s clothes were torn and dirty, their faces tired and worn. Although Realism is often associated with France, it also influenced artists in Russia, England, Germany and the United States. A2. Later Historical Art Period The Impressionism Art Movement was launched in Paris, France in 1874. At this time Paris was...
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...and flowing. It seems to include glazing which if the layer of paint in thin layers. The colors look layered and add another dimension to the painting. The light in this painting is reflected off the water. The sun appears to be setting in the sky and the water adds movement to this. The light in this painting contributes to the contrast of colors featured in this work. The subject matter for this painting is scene featured on the water. It appears to be a harbor, maybe with fishermen. It's a simple setting that shows a story. The man in the boat looks likes he's rowing to the harbor ahead of him. The Impressionism style consists of loose brushstrokes which can be seen in this work of art. Realism often shows more ordinary or realistic activities. Realism is not Running head: Individual Project Unit 4 romanticized. Post Impressionism does not showcase the subject. It stresses the form of shapes and unnatural colors. [pic] Photo # 1 Post Impressionism: Almost like Impressionists, however, it stressed the artificiality of the picture. The Post-Impressionists believed that color could be independent from form and composition as an emotional and aesthetic bearer of meaning. Post-Impressionism include some of the most famous works of modern art such as Monet’s Waterlilies, a Series of Waterscapes and Running head: Individual Project Unit 4 Van Gogh’s Starry Night....
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...trends being reflected in the art movements. The decades from 1900 to the present have seen the human race living in an ever shrinking planet. The 20th century saw a boom in the interchange of ideas, beliefs, values, and lifestyles that continues to bring the citizens of the world closer together. Technological breakthroughs From the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800s, the world zoomed into the Electronic. Age in the mid-1900s, then into the present Cyberspace Age. In just over 100 years, humans went from hand-cranked telephones to hands-free mobile phones, from the first automobiles to inter-planetary space vehicles, from local radio broadcasting to international news coverage via satellite, from vaccinations against polio and smallpox to laser surgery. Social, political, and environmental changes There has been migration across the globe, allowing different cultures, languages, skills, and even physical characteristics of different races to intermingle like never before. The 20th century also suffered through two World Wars, and several regional wars in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. There was the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the Asian economic crisis of the 1990s. Considered the modern-day plague, AIDS has afflicted millions the world over, while millions more continue to live in hunger, disease, and poverty. Environmental destruction has also become a major concern. Effects on the world of art The art movements of the late 19th century to...
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...IWT1 Task 1 Romantic and Realist Visual Art Romanticism Romanticism first began as an artistic movement in the early decades of the nineteenth century in France and Britain, it continued to flourish until the mid-century. One of the biggest social conditions that contributed to the Romantic Movement in Europe was the British Industrial Revolution. Manufacturing, business, and the amount of wage laborers began to soar. This period was also largely a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms. The Romantic Period was significantly associated with liberalism and radicalism, and the long-term effect of nationalism was probably much more significant. Romantics feared the oppression and conformity that they felt was brought on by Enlightenment, and so this period is thought to be a direct reaction to the dominance of it. They strongly believed that no person could ever understand or know everything about human personality or the world. The Romantic Period focused its main emphasis on the imagination and emotion. The romantic artists’ nature gave an alternative to the ordered world of enlightening thought. Romanticism painting is not generally identified with any one single style, attitude, or technique. It is more defined by a highly subjective and imaginative approach, a visionary or dreamlike quality and intense emotions. Romantic artists tried to express with suggestion, states of feeling that were too mystical, or too intense too define. Self expression...
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...Running Head: ROMANTICISM AND REALISM Romanticism and Realism Western Governor’s University RWT Task 1 February 17, 2013 Romanticism and Realism 1. Romanticism was a period starting as early as the 1760s seen not only in the world of art but also in the literary and musical worlds as well. The movement originated during the French Revolution as a contention to the Enlightenment period that centered on science and logic. The movement ranged from widespread Europe to the United States. During this period of time the Industrial Revolution was beginning and people lived in uprising cities with deplorable conditions of terrible sanitation and poor health. Focusing on Romanticism in the realm of art, the initial paintings consisted of landscapes. The need for open space was a reaction to the closeness of people living together in the city. It was very common to find turmoil and storms taking over the canvas. A great summary of the origins Romanticism can be quoted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art as “In Romantic art, nature—with it’s uncontrollable power, unpredictability, and potential for cataclysmic extremes— offered an alternative to the ordered world of Enlightenment thought.” (Galitz, 2000) Artists of this time period would paint pictures that caused the viewers to feel emotion. There were no distinguished characteristics of how a painting was created. Creations during the art period were original from the artists themselves and had no set technical rules...
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...In 1840 Paris, France; Claude Oscar Monet was born (Claudemonetgallery.org). Claude Monet was known for many paintings. However, he was most known for his work with impressionism and showing light. His works were very different from the time era’s style, realism. Claude Monet broke out from realism by creating and preserving impressionism. With this new idea, he was able to capture nature and light effects on nature. I found his works to draw my attention to them by their vivid colors, and what effects light has on a scenery. What is impressionism? Impressionism is a movement that a group of Paris artist created. “in 1862 Monet became a student of Charles Gleyre in Paris, where he met Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. Together they shared new approaches to art, painting the effects of light en plein air with broken color and rapid brushstrokes, in what later came to be known as Impressionism.” (Claudemonetgallery.org). His main goal was to show light effects on nature and show how different colors can change a paintings mood. Claude would use vibrant colors, and cool colors. These cool and vibrant colors would contrast against each other. Other paintings he would use just cool colors, others would be vibrant. His works made me feels as...
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...The Renaissance Age and the Scientific Revolution were considered as the key pillar of the Modernism. In Renaissance Age, humanism was imperative as it was characterized as the philosophy and the classical civilization of the Western countries. The idea started in Italy which gave rise to the renaissance movement and later it spread throughout the Europe in the 17th Century. Humanism strongly emphasized on the eminence of the human being and preferred critical thinking rather than believing in any superstitious theory or supernatural beings. It educated society and exhibited that people have the capability and agile thinking, rather than believing in the perception of resurrection. Humanism typically initiated with the social methodology of embracing the world and objectives of confronting the basic human needs which led to the creation and significance of societal practices. As to have a proper development in the society, the knowledge of human beings must be modernized, as time changes, the human’s point of view, as well as their choices, must be transformed. Amongst many humanists, Martin Luther was a great personality during the renaissance era; where he started the movement to end the corruption of the Catholic Church. The society would still be Catholic if humanists like Luther would not have stepped forward. Hence, the Renaissance time period aided people to move into the modern era. The fine arts also played the noteworthy role in bringing change in people’s mindset. As...
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...MODERN ART The realism art movement in painting began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. The realist painters rejected Romanticism, which had come to dominate French literature and art, with roots in the late 18th century. The Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s. Impressionist painting characteristics include relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage of time), and ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles. Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905; from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists’ concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content, Post-Impressionism encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloissonism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement was led by Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. Expressionism...
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...Art Movements: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism On the morning of April 25, 1874, 10 days subsequent to the Anonymous Society of painters, sculptors and engravers first collective exhibit, Mr. Louis Leroy, an art critic employed by the French newspaper Le Charvari, unwittingly supplied the moniker for one of the most momentous movements in art history. Figure 1: Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet (1872) Entitled The Impressionists, Leroy's opinion on the group's presentation, which was strictly an attempt to denigrate Monet's Impression Sunrise, instantaneously spawned much ridicule from the salons, colleagues and industry patrons, yet the assortment of artists, including Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Manet, Sisley and Cezanne, ironically were quite fond of the term and implemented it to describe their artistic vision. When Classicism invaded Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries to usher in the Age of Enlightenment its form dominated societal culture until the rise of "The Rejects" as the Impressionists were referred to. Classicism was based upon strict form and a structured focal point. Impressionism rebelled every established convention of all previous art forms. Its focus was based on freedom or a release from prior constraints and depicted what was actually seen versus the most ascetically pleasing vision. While Classicism strictly adhered to lines, contours and muted colors, Impressionism was much more akin to coloring outside the lines, so to speak. The Impressionists...
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...Zola (Thomson). With all of that knowledge that he acquired through the years, Van Gogh felt that he was ready to write his novel. As time went on, Van Gogh became frustrated with starting a story so he gave up writing. While sitting in a chair in his house, he began to remember the lovely paintings that he used to see when he was an art dealer. Van Gogh wanted to learn more about paint techniques and colors, so he enrolled himself at Hague School in London to study art (Thomson). Therefore, Van Gogh’s journey begins as he leaves London to get more inspiration. His styles of painting became the key points to Van Gogh’s fame. After Van Gogh graduated from Hague School, he began to practice different styles of painting techniques. He used realism and...
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...ROMANTICISM AND REALISM Deborah Christman Western Governor’s University ROMANTICISM AND REALISM Both Romanticism and Realism were art movements that began in the 19th century, during a time of war and revolution. Romanticism focused on emotions, injustice, and extraordinary, while Realism characterized the world without glorification. Both began as a response to historic ideas, but they vary in terms of artistic style and political views. In the first part of the 19th century, a new art movement began—Romanticism. Romanticism arose in retaliation of Neoclassicism, which placed restraints on artists and “rules-driven orderliness”. Romantic artists focused more on perception and impression, rather than on the specific object. They included “passion, emotion, and exotic settings with dramatic action”. Their attention was on the Romantic hero (archetype) who rejected normal life and focused on himself. The subjects in their paintings showed the preposterous and untamed side of humans. (Mindedge, 3.18) To display emotion and style, the artists used somber paint colors and displayed Gothic elements. The color red was used quite often as a sunset or in the person’s clothing, while black and gray were used for the skies to display impending doom. The main goals of Romanticism were to portray the battle between man vs. nature and man vs. himself, and also show certain political issues. The types of media used were oil paints and watercolor. The painting...
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...Modern Art History Modern art represents the headiest period in all of art history--a span of no more than 110 years that saw an explosion of movements from Realism, to Impressionism, to Cubism, to Abstract Expressionism to Pop and Op, with dozens of others in between and around the world. Hard-Edge Painting: Art History Basics 101 Hard-Edge Painting emphasizes the flat surface of the canvas or paper with clean, clear abstract shapes and surrounding fields of colors. These shapes and fields can be rendered in black and white or brilliant colors. The unity of the composition creates a unified presentation in the art work itself. Color Field Painting: Art History 101 Basics Color Field Painting is a branch of Abstract Expressionism that concentrates on colorful shapes and expanses of color which emphasize the literal flatness of the canvas or paper. Cubism - Art History Basics 101 An early twentieth century art movement that rebelled against Renaissance one-point perspective and illusionism through an emphasis on geometricity, simultaneity, and passage. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque pioneered Cubism's ideas and style. Abstract Expressionism - Art History 101 Basics Abstract Expressionism or "AbEx" (a.k.a. Action Painting; a.k.a. The New York School) exploded onto the art scene after World War II with its characteristic messiness and extremely energetic applications of paint. To the contemporary audience, the whole enterprise seemed like youthful antagonism--hardly...
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...influence and industrialization. The Romantics were a group of writers, artists, composers, and thinkers, that challenged these influences to say that the human feels, as in emotion, before thinking, that the heart was just as important as the head and emphasized the emotion in individuals by focusing on the beauty of nature, the power of love, the world of dreams, the exotic, the mysterious and the strange. With the focus on natural goodness and empathy for the oppressed, it helped to celebrate the self and glorify nature in a time of extreme poverty amongst the people. The arts of the latter half of the nineteenth century gave way to Realism, then to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Artists such as Monet and van Gogh began to express the everyday world as if to capture the subject’s beauty at that particular moment in time. Through realism, artists attempted...
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...IWT1 - Humanities Michael White WGU January 12, 2013 Impressionism and Post Impressionism are very unique periods within the art movement and heavily influenced 21st century art. Impressionist Artists were viewed as “radicals” or breakaway artist for their rejection of the traditional cultural climate of the times. Prior to the impressionist, during the post 1848 Revolution period of Napoleon III period, the “Realist” movement had been the dominant political and socially accepted artistic flavor. Realist subjects encompassed normal working class people and real life themes as seen through the eyes of the observer. Impressionist moved away from the rigid structure of Realism (Realist Academicism) and the enforced bounds regarding choice of subject matter. Impressionist began canvassing outdoors and chose objects such as flowers, birds, animals, and people in natural light settings (Denvir, 1990). Impressionists took advantage of premixed paints, which allowed artists to work more spontaneously, both outdoors and indoors. The use of vibrant colors and light made impressionist paintings appealing works of art. Prior to Impressionism, artist topics and pictures were mostly history based and stayed within the context of what was socially acceptable during the Napoleon III time period. Additionally, the art of the period was monitored and controlled by the Académie des Beaux-Arts, whom held an annual art show called the “Salon de Paris”. This show featured artists work...
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