Monday 2 March 2015

art - realism



Realism

Realism is a therm of something which is like really happening. It is something without rules of formal arthistic theory.
The first work began to be approved in the 18th centuary with a reaction of romanticism and Neoclassicism.
 It represent life happens around you. But the greatest realist artists were in the 19th centuary. In France it inspired people like Camille Carot and Jean-Francois. Their works consists of typically portrayed ordinary, or working-class, people, as opposed to heroic, historic, biblical, or royal figures. Artists also painted scenes of traditional life, such as rural landscapes with farmers herding oxen or harvesting grain. 
During the hellenistic era, in accient greeece sculptors began sculpture people as they realy appeared. Before people were portrayed as the ideal human form in Greek syle. The flat, formal, and stylized art that was popular in these days had been moved to the realist movement during the middle ages.

Gustave Courbet ( 1819-1877)

As he also said, Gustave Courbet was the most proud and the most arrogant man in France.He created a sensation at the Paris Salon of 1850-1851 when he exhibite a group of his paintings in his native Ornans, a village which is in the east of France.These works have included in them The stone breakers and A burial at omans, these paintings have their scenes of daily life to have reallistic style.

Madame Auguste Cuoq (Mathilde Desportes, 1827–1910), ca. 1852–57 Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877) Oil on canvas; 69 1/2 x 42 1/2 in. (176.5 x 108 cm) H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.130)




Woman with a Parrot, 1866
Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
Oil on canvas; 51 x 77 in. (129.5 x 195.6 cm)
Signed and dated (lower left): .66 / Gustave.Courbet.
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.57)



After the Hunt, ca. 1859

Gustave Courbet (French, 1819–1877)
Oil on canvas; 93 x 73 1/4 in. (236.2 x 186.1 cm)
H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929 (29.100.61)

Bibliography

19 th centuary- French realism  [online] available at :< http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm> [accessed 1 March 2015]
Gustave Courbet- Biography [Online] available at :< http://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustave-Courbet> accessed 1 March 2015


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