Humanities-Realism
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- Postivism
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-applies to the scientific method to the study of society
+utopian b/c it creates a better society (looked at data)
+Social sciences born (pschology, ect) - Realism
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-2nd half of the 19th century called positivist age
+age of faith in all knowledge
=derived from science and scientific objective methods=solve all human problems
-Visual Arts
+rejection of Romantic subjectivism and imagination in favor of Realism
+accurate and apparently objective description of ordinary, observable world, a change evident in painting - Naturalism
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-Theory that human behavior is determined by one's social environment
+Blank slate idea
+Get away from human nature is corrupt - Vissarion Belinksy
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-against romantism=emotion, ideals
-He wants literature, art, ect to reflect life as it is
+close union of art with life
-Truth is beauty - Emile Zola
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-People are not alone they live in society
+Importance of being a social being is that is makes ud do what we do and who we become - Gustave Courbet
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-father of Realistic Movement
-response to paint angels: "I have never seen angels, show me an Angel and I will paint one."
-Painted real, concrete subjects -
Realism Art -
-Portrait of the Artist
+Stain shows the good and bad
-Courbet -
Realism Art -
-The Stonebreakers
-Courbet - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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-member of Barbizon School of painters
+inspired by John Constable
=painted real scenes instead of imagined ones
=painted outdoors near the town of Barbizon -
Realism Art -
-Agostina
-Corot -
Realism Art -
-Villed D'AVary
-Corot - Honore Daumier
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-Satirist
-jailed for a cartoon of king swallowing "bags of gold extorted from the people"
-Polemic: incitng controversy -
Realism Art -
-The Third Class Carriage
-Daumier -
Realism Art -
-In the Belly of the Legislature
-Daumier - Winslow Homer
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-American
-Self-taught artist who painted what he saw
-One should never look at paintings if one wants to be an artist
-Known for watercolors -
Realism Art -
-The Boatbuilders
-Homer -
Realism Art -
-The Life Line
-Homer - Thomas Eakins
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-Philadelphian
-Concerned with getting anatonmy correct
+as with Michelangelo and Leonardo
-Dissected cadavers -
Realism Art -
-Between Rounds
-Eakins
-Shows dirty, smokyness of room -
Realism Art -
-John Biglin in a single Scull
-Eakins
-shows anatonmy
-skin tone good
-reflections close to him - James Whistler
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-"Art should be independent of all claptrap."
-controversial man
-believed in art/design for it's own sake
+not to describe a subject or tell a story
-born in Lowell, MA
+claimed to be from St. Petersburg, Russia
+left America at age 21, never returned
-lived bohemian lifestyle -
Realism Art -
-Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket
-Whistler
+prestages of abstract art
+fireworks -
Realism Art -
-The White Girl
-Whistler