REALISM Flashcards
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THE GLEANERS
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MILLET
- monuments against landscape
- 3 peasant women
- back breaking work
- shows everyday life
- tedious, time consuming
- solemn grandeur
1
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THE BURIAL AT ORNANS
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Courbet
- peasants just as important as angels
- depicts normal
- no real emotion
2
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THE THIRD-CLASS CARRIAGE
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DAUMIER
- rough, haggard
- shows how other half lived
3
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THE LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS
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Manet
- controversial
- 2 nude, unashamed, looking directly at viewer
- known models
- represent promiscuous women in Paris parks
- lighting creates strong contrast
- similar to pastoral symphony
- washed out women, almost pallid
- unrealistic subject matter
4
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OLYMPIA
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Manet
- controversial
- prostitute, naked
- no shame, flattened out
- like Venus de urbino
- black cat
5
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BARBIZON SCHOOL
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Specialized in detailed landscapes or forests
6
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ACADEMIC ART
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Art condoned by academy
7
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SALON DE REFUGE
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Napoleon III set it up to showcase art refused by academy
8
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THE GROSS CLINIC
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Eakins
- realistic portrayal
- bloody fingers and scalpel
- contemporary=anesthesia
- body movement
9
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THE THANKFUL POOR
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TANNER
- grandfather
- deep shadows on him, devout,
- grandson
- light hits him
- lighting evokes reverent feeling
- loose brushstrokes except in objects
10
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OPHELIA
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MILLAIS
- pre-raphaelite brotherhood
- spirituality
- visual fact
- hated industrial
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PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD
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Represents fictional, historical, or mythical scenes with realism
