realism
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Realism
By: Princess Joy L. Buenafe BSP - IV
REALISM
• Started in the 1840’s/1850’s until late 19th Century
• Sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life
3 BRANCHES
REALISM
Social Realism
Magic Realism
Hyper-Realism
Social Realism
• originating in about 1930
• the movement that depicts social and racial injustice, economic hardship, through pictures of life struggles
• Ashcan School painters, who in the first decades of the 20th century depicted the commonplace, gritty, and unglamorous realities of city life.
Moses Soyer—Seven Dancers (1941)
Dorothea Lange – Migrant Mother (1936)
Magic Realism
• Coined by German art critic Franz Roh in an essay written in 1924
• Art movement in the years after World War I .
• Representational art, mixed with elements of fantasy.
• This art was often typified by remarkable detail and sharp focus.
• Taps into emotional reservoirs within all of us. It tricks us by hiding unexpected or suggestive content in what at first might seem to be a common or ordinary scene.
Giorgio de Chirico created geometric perspectives marked by strong light and equally strong shadows that gave his pictures an air of mystery and menace
Hyper-Realism
• will look no different from a high resolution picture, making it hard to believe this was created using such regular tools as pencils or ballpoint pens.
• Hyperrealistic images are typically 10 to 20 times the size of the original photographic reference source, yet retain an extremely high resolution in color, precision and detail.
• Gustave Courbet
• Honore Daumier
• Jean-Francois Millet
• Ilya Repin
REALISTS
Finocchio, Ross. "Nineteenth-Century French Realism". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rlsm/hd_rlsm.htm(October 2004)
http://www.boredpanda.com/hyper-realistic-art/?image_id=hyper-realistic-artworks-1-4.jpg
http://www.monograffi.com/magic.htm
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/551374/Social-Realism