Realism/Impressionism Flashcards
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Title: The Stone Breakers
Date: 1849
Style: Realism
Country: France
Significance: Anti-authority, something the french could relate to (poverty), not idealized, naturalistic
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Title: The Burial at Ornans
Date: 1849
Style: Realism
Country: France
Significance: unclear narrative, open gave suggests everyone dies, all the people are equal, chiaroscuro
Artist: Manet
Title: Luncheon on the Grass
Date: 1863
Style: Realism
Country: France
Significance: juxtaposition of light and dark, women looks enticingly at what appears to be a male audience, painterly, rough, impasto
Artist: Manet
Title: Olympia
Date: 1863
Style: Realism
Country: France
Significance: direct reference to the Venus of Urbino, woman is a courteson, lots of contrast between olympia and slave/ sheets and background. woman is portrayed as though she is for sale too
Artist: Manet
Title: A Bar at the Folies Bergère
Date: 1881
Style: Realism
Country: France
Significance: strange perspective, genre painting, not portrait,
Artist: Degas
Title: The Orchestra of the Paris Opéra
Date: 1869
Style: Realism
Country: France
Significance: subject matter is the environment of the opera, strange perspective, interested in line rather than color and shadow
Artist: Degas
Title: The Little Dancer
Date: 1880
Style: Realism
Country: France
Significance: made of wax, real hair and real materials (very realistic), depicts dancers as street rats (different head shapes, etc)
Artist: Cassatt
Title: The Child’s Bath
Date: 1893
Style: Impressionism
Country: France
Significance: flattened perspective allows viewer to see everything but squished, genre, visible brush strokes, mom taking care of child is a bold statement that mothers are important for society.
Artist: Monet
Title: Impressionism: Sunrise
Date: 1872
Style: Impressionism
Country: France
Significance: thickly applied paint in patches of color, the subject is the sunset, painted outside and wasn’t planned
