Art-Realism

Realism

By this period artists used this movement so they can make a particular light in the society to show how cruel and how much unfair  their life was. This style of Art reflects that in the 19^th century had been a negative age at that time. It was origin from a group of artists, writers and intellectuals in the late 1840`s.The most paintings where about politics and slaves at that time.

Some artists  realism to show their problems issues through political problems, and other artists used the realism to paint scene of urban landscape of life or portraits of nudes. They used to make the painting very realistic  to show their life.

In their paintings they used to show reflecting surface, shadow, light and as much details as possible for both still-life or live views interpretation, to show the object that the artist wanted to create.

French Realism emerged in times of social hardship and political in the early 1848, in the 3rd revolution that had happened in Paris. Then In the 19^th century, art of Courbet's caused a lot of controversy, because they came against the academic rules of the Salon. The rules of the Salon were that the paintings must be small, pleasant, escapist works that can be enjoyed by the people who were living in the town. So Courbet’s art went against standard academic practice so they weren't expected in the Salon.

This painting of Gustave Courbet – ‘The Stone Breakers’ that is made with oil on canvas. This was a painting that Courbet creates, that was against the rules of the Salon were accepting. It was made in a sketchy way and it shows a lot of focus of the two men that are breaking stones, to focus more on the two men, he made a plain background. These two figures are breaking and removing the stone from the road that had been built. They used to be forced to make some work that they didn`t want to do at that time.

Then this painting of Millet- ‘The Gleaners’ The painter had a lot of meaning in this painting. This is showing three feminine figures of normal people, that are working in a farm, and one rule that the artist went against it, was that he painted a rich man  on a horse watching the women working from far away, at that time that wasn’t acceptable because rich and important people were given the much importance of the painting rather than the normal people.

In these two painting there are the same meaning during the 19^th century, that the artists wanted to show the way of life that they had been through.

At that time, there were the paintings of the nude people, that artists used ideal forms to have the perfect painting that the Salon want to exhibit, but like the artists of above, they didn’t want to follow the formula that the Salon was accepting so they paint their paintings in their style as they want, some critics were saying that these paintings were 'the glorification of the ugly', meaning that these artists weren’t painting the ideal figures of nudes showing precision and perfectness but the figures of nudes with all the defects that the body will have. They made these type of art to show that no one was perfect and have some defects in their body.

Courbet.G. 1853. The Bathers[Oil on Canvas 227x193cm ] Musee' Fabre Montepellier- This painting was one of the painting that Courbet  didn't want to show the perfectness like the other artists done n their paintings. 

 

Gerad, F. 1798. Cupid and Pscyhe.[Oil on canvas 186x 132cm ] Louvre.Paris- This is one of the painting that the Salon accept beacuse it was the 'right size' and the 'right perfection' that they want to show to people so they can enjoy themselves.

The Stonebreakers - Smarthistory. 2014. The Stonebreakers - Smarthistory. [ONLINE] Available at: http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/the-stonebreakers.html. [Accessed 26 February 2014].