Realism Flashcards
What is another name for the period between 1850-1880?
Age of Rationalism and Imperialism, Age of Science and Doubt, Age of Progress.
What was the belief during the Age of Progress?
That knowledge derived from science and scientific methods could solve all human problems.
What was the Realism School of Painting?
A group of international artists in Paris who devised new methods of pictorial representation.
Who were some notable artists of the Realism School of Painting?
John Singleton Copley, Gustav Courbet, Hilarie Germaine, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet.
What was the focus of the Realist painters?
Scientific concepts of vision and optical effects of light.
What was the Barbizon School?
A group of French landscape artists named after the forest of Fontainebleau near Barbizon.
Who were some notable artists of the Barbizon School?
Theodore Rousseau, Jean Francois Millet.
What was the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?
The first avant-garde movement in art, rejecting contemporary academic British art.
Who were the Pre-Raphaelites?
A group of English painters, poets, and critics aiming to reform art.
What was the Hudson River School?
The first American school of landscape painting, focusing on the Hudson River Valley and upper New York.
What was Gustave Courbet known for?
Being the first French Realist and believing that artists should represent only their experiences.
What does The Painter’s Studio by Gustave Courbet depict?
Rich patrons on the right, poor people on the left, and Courbet painting in the middle with a classical muse nearby.
What does The Stone Breakers by Gustave Courbet show?
The struggles of peasants paving the road.
Who was Honore Daumier?
A lithographer and cartoonist who satirized Parisian officials.
What were some works by Honore Daumier?
The Third Class Carriage, The Uprising.
Who was Edouard Manet?
A Realist painter known for using shallow perspective.
Why was Dejeuner Sur l’Herbe by Edouard Manet controversial?
The nude woman was depicted as a real person rather than an idealized classical figure.
Who was the woman in Dejeuner Sur l’Herbe?
A real woman, likely identifiable, while one of the men was Manet’s brother-in-law.
What does Olympia by Edouard Manet depict?
A nude prostitute, painted in a non-classical style, which caused outrage.
What is the difference between nude and naked in classical art?
Nude is depicted with glowing skin and idealized beauty, while naked is more raw and realistic.
