Realism

Question 1

Answer 1

Édouard Manet
Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe
(Luncheon on the Grass)

Risque because women are real people and not mythological
Real models - Manet’s friend and a studio model

Looked at classical Raphael engraving and used postures/composition

Lack of shading. Feels flat.

Rejection of Renaissance / 3D properties, more faithful to 2D surface of the canvas.

Question 2

Answer 2

Gustave Courbet

Burial at Ornans

1849

Ordinary subjects and composition / Real life setting

Realism

Question 3

Answer 3

Édouard Manet
Olympia

Shocking

Question 4

George Haussmann 1809-1891

Answer 4

Asked to create new spaces and urban landscape in Paris, hired by Napoleon III.

Changed small cobblestone streets and run down apartments and replaced with wide boulevards, large public gardens, parks, and uniformity of architectural height.

“Haussmanization”

Question 5

Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

Question 6

Flâneur

Answer 6

Stroll

A person who walks the city in order to experience it.

Question 7

Modernity

Answer 7

The fleeting, ephemeral experience of being in an industrialized, modernized setting.

Question 8

Impressionism

Answer 8

A late-19th-century art movement
that sought to capture a fleeting moment, thereby conveying the illusiveness and impermanence of images and conditions.

Question 9

Answer 9

Paris: A Rainy Day

Gustave Caillebotte

Question 10

Plein-Air

Answer 10

An approach to painting much popular among the Impressionists, in which an artist sketches outdoors to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color. The artist then takes the sketches to the studio for reworking into more fin-
ished works of art.