22/10/18 REALISM ART HISTORY WEEK 4

19th Century paintings:

- Insult to artists/ practices

- Artist relationship with contemporary world

SOCIAL CONTEXT
- Social control
- Civil unrest
- Civil landscape
Rural population surging into Urban Cities
Honoré Daumier
- Changing fashions of the city
- New interest in social observation e.g the class they were for from
Photography = new art form / capturing the movement (practical tool for artists)
Edgar Degas

REALIST LANDSCAPE
Gustave Courbet
- Wanted to create living authentic art
- Light / blurring / fading / transient effects
A Burial at Ornans (1849-50) –
- Slightly classical

Jules Bastien Lepage (1878)

Le Foins (Hay Making)
Musée d’Orsay
- Critical cultured images
Classical reclining figure= contorted into beauty (impossible forms)

Edgar Degas
- Didn’t see beauty in the subjects

From Formalism to the Social History of Art

- Handling of media, composition

- Social interaction e.g justice/injustice
Reflected cultural conditions
FORMALISM IN ITS METHODS IN THE 2OTH CENTURY

THE SOCIALIST HISTORY OF ART: MARXISM AND ART HISTORY

THE PERIOD EYE

FEMIIMS AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ART

THE ROLE OF MUSUEMS AND GALLERIES