Realism Lecture 2 PDF

LECTURE 2 : Part 2 REALISM  Napoleon the 3rd Georges Haussmann - Napoleon the 3rd (1852-1870) ruled during the French riots & revolts. - Paris (before 1845) was lacking in urban planning, overcrowded population, dark, filthy, f...

LECTURE 2 : Part 2 REALISM  Napoleon the 3rd Georges Haussmann - Napoleon the 3rd (1852-1870) ruled during the French riots & revolts. - Paris (before 1845) was lacking in urban planning, overcrowded population, dark, filthy, filled with slumps & unhealthy ( major deaths caused by Chlorella disease). - Georges Haussmann – Rebuilding of Paris – ‘bringing lights & air to the city’ - Building new boulevards, parks, theaters, sewerage systems, sanitation & aqueduct. The Haussmann Boulevards  The Paris Salon (Academy Des Beaux Art) The Salon was the official art exhibition of the French Academy of Fine Arts in Paris Salon De Refuses The rejected artwork goes to this salon de refuses.  What is Realism Art? Realism is an art movement that attempted to paint human subjects as they really existed in all their flaws, suffering, and imperfections. However the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way.  Daguerreotype REALISM (Around 1850 – 1890) - The influence of French Revolution in 1830 & 1848 & Industrial Revolution(1810 -1870) - The First Railway in Calais(1848) & Development of the Camera. - Camera became a tool for artists to depict pictures of reality & the truth. -The popularity of “Realistic" works grew with the introduction of photography. - Against the ideal beauty of tradition Classical Art / Religious & Mythological themes. - Artists began to focus on the ‘Reality’ rather than the romantic ideals (Romanticism). - Depicts the ordinary daily life, mundane, ugly & the harsh living of the middle & lower class / lowly paid laborers of French society. - Artists : Gustave Courbet , Francois Millet, Honore Daumiere, Edouard Manet  To challenge the notion of ‘idealised beauty’ in the traditional Classical Art. To depict the truth & against all myth, religious all idealized beauty. The Birth of Venus by Alexander Cabanel The Desperate Man by GUSTAVE COURBET Realism Artist Landscape near Ornans Bonjour (1854) ‘The Sleeping Spinner’, 1853 by Gustave Courbet The Winnowers (Peasants cleaning the grain) The Stone Breakers Burial at Ornans The Lourve, Paris Burial At Ornans PAINTINGS BY FRANCOIS MILLET Realism Artist Pasture Near Cherbourg The Gleaners (1857) - made the upper classes feel uneasy about their status. (incident of the French Revolution) - Normally this size of a canvas (3ftx4ft) was reserved for religious/ mythological paintings. The Angelus Prayer Noon Day Rest (1865) The Lunch on The Grass (1863) “So, they’d prefer me to do a nude, would they? Fine, I’ll do one.” using nude painting in a modern context. Olympia (1863) Women were to be modeled on historical, mythical or biblical themes but the model painted was a Courtesan (Prostitute). The maid is presenting Olympia with a gift of flowers, presumably a gift from a lover. The End