Realism

Philosophy and Thought of the Day:

 * “Can Jupiter survive the lightning rod?”-Karl Marx
 * God of lightning and thunder in jeopardy due to science
 * Baudelaire calls for paintings that express “the heroism of modern life”
 * What did it mean to become modern?

@http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/becoming-modern.html

Gustave Courbet 1819-77

 * ===“I cannot paint an angel, because I have never seen one.” ===
 * ===Socialist viewpoint of the common laborer. ===
 * ===Condemns the traditional subject matter of painting ===

 “I am fifty years old and I have always lived in freedom; let me end my life free; when I am dead let this be said of me: 'He belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, least of all to any régime except the régime of liberty.”

@http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/the-stonebreakers.html

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media type="youtube" key="SvFtmPhbNRw" height="315" width="420" = = =Jean-Francois Millet  1814 –1875 =
 * Naturalism and realism
 * Peasant farmers as subject
 * Very influential to Vincent Van Gogh’s work

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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Edouard Manet 1832-1883

 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seen as transition artist from realism to impressionism ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Considered the grandfather of modern art ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Believed the painter’s first loyalty is to the canvas, not to the outside world. ===
 * ===<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Art for art’s sake” ===

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<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">For more on Realism as and ideal and philosophy click here.
=<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Julia Margaret Cameron: British Photographer 1815-1879 =

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">copyrighted her work
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">@http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/cameron/ <span class="wiki_link_ext">http://www.geh.org/ne/mismi3/cameron_sum00001.html @http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/camr/hd_camr.htm @http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Julia-Margaret-Cameron.html

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