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Realism
“The attempt in art and literature to depict life as it really is, without sentimentalizing or
idealizing it” (Adventures 950).
Keeping it Real
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Overly dramatic and idealized art like the painting above, were a thing of the past. Likewise, dramatic, imaginative, and sentimental literature like The Birthmark, are abandoned.
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Romanticism vs. Realism
Both are paintings of churches. One is Romantic, the other, Realist. Which is which?
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Art and literature moves away from the fantastic and idealized and begins to depict the everyday lives of
ordinary people.
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The Stone Breakers
Prior to paintings like this, by Gustave Courbet, few people
painted or wrote about the working class.
Why did artists and writers suddenly gain interest in depicting the plight of people that had, for many generations, been ignored?
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The SowerArtists began to paint pictures depicting the difficulties and plight of the working class,
a segment of the population that had
seldom been the focus of artistic or
literary works.
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Copley’s Watson and the Shark
So, instead of showing an overly dramatic, idealized scene of a shark attack…
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Daumier’s Third Class Carriage
…artists and writers sought to depict the ordinary lives of
ordinary people.
If this painting were done today, how do you think
the subject matter and setting would be
changed?
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Observed Fact
Writers and artists placed less emphasis on imagination (like Masque of the Red Death) and
more emphasis on observed fact.
Anshutz’s Ironworkers at Lunch
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Search for Truth
The growing importance of
science, brought on largely by Darwin’s
new theory of evolution, creates
an increased interest in art and
literature that depicts life as it is
rather than how it is imagined to be.Wee Maureen, by
Robert Henri
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From Ideas…
Dramatic, imaginative scenes like Lion Attacking a Horse were based on the ideas and creativity of the
artist, Stubbs.
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… to Facts
People wanted to see things as they are, without sentimentalizing or idealizing the subject matter. Here,
we see Winslow Homer’s The Herring Net, a depiction of ordinary people doing ordinary work.
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From work…
Millet’s The Fishermen
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…to Play?
What is this young woman’s attitude or disposition? Why is
this painting considered part of
the Realist movement?Degas’ Absinthe Drinker
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Realism or Romanticism?
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Thomas Eakins The Gross Clinic (1875) is considered Thomas Eakins’s masterpiece. The painting was rejected for an exhibition in Philadelphia to commemorate the centennial of American Independence because it was considered too harshly realistic.
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The Gross Clinic and Eakins
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916): American realist painter, one of the foremost of the 19th century.
The Gross Clinic combined sharp realism—a depiction of an operation in progress—with psychological acuity in the portrayal of the surgeon, Doctor Gross.
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Realism or Romanticism?
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Hudson River School Painter Bierdstadt
Albert Bierstadt was a German-born American artist who specialized in grandiose paintings of spectacular mountain scenery in the western United States. The 1868 painting shown here, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
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More on the Hudson River School
Many artists associated with the group lived and painted in the Catskill Mountains region of New York State, particularly along the Hudson River. Their work is characterized by meticulous and realistic attention to detail and a poetic feeling for nature characteristic of romanticism.
Other artists who painted elsewhere, such as Bierdstadt in the West, are considered members of the school because their landscapes display the same romantic love of nature, formal composition, and precise detail typical of the Hudson River School.
Hudson River School: the first group of landscape painters to emerge in the United States after independence from Great Britain. The Hudson River School flourished between 1820 and 1880.
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Realism or Romanticism?
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Snow in New York by Robert Henri
Ash Can School (1891-1918): A group of urban realist painters in America creating work around the early part of 20th century.
Founded by the artist and teacher Robert Henri
Group began in Philadelphia around 1891
The Ash Can school artists sought to paint "real life" and urban reality. These artists believed what was real and true in life was what was beautiful and what constituted "art." They painted gritty urban scenes and the poor and disenfranchised in America.
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Nighthawks
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Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
Hopper’s paintings combined realism with isolation, vastness, melancholy.
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Edward Hopper
Hopper recorded the starkness and vastness of America. Sometimes he expressed aspects of this in traditional guise, as, for example, in his
pictures of lighthouses and harsh New England landscapes; sometimes New York was his context, with eloquent cityscapes, often showing
deserted streets at night.
Corn Hill (Truro, Cape Cod)
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More Edward Hopper
He painted hotels, motels, trains and highways, and also liked to paint the public and semi-
public places where people gathered: restaurants, theatres, cinemas and offices. But even in these paintings he stressed the theme of loneliness—his theatres are often semideserted, with a few patrons waiting for the curtain to go up or the performers isolated in the fierce light
of the stage.
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Hopper.htm
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Works Cited Adventures in American Literature http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563273/Albert_Bierstadt.html http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761556406/Hudson_River_School.html http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761552472/realism_(art_and_literature).html http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761573747/Thomas_Eakins.html http://encarta.msn.com/media_461553545_761573747_-1_1/The_Gross_Clinic.html http://20thcenturyart.suite101.com/article.cfm/robert_henri
http://www.artmovements.co.uk/ashcanschool.htm http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/3aa/3aa432.htm http://www.talkingproud.us/Culture091403.html http://www.alumni.utah.edu/continuum/spring03/landscape.htm http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hopper.html http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Hopper.htm