Art Survey D4
Choose a Realist painter (Courbet or Manet) and an Impressionist painter (Monet or Degas) from the websites listed below. Compare and contrast the artists in terms of artistic style, subjects, and the general cultural background. For example, what types of subjects did the artist favor? What set them apart stylistically from the broader artistic culture? Be sure to reference at least one work of art from each artist.
- Realism
- Metropolitan Mueum of Art essay: Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) http://www.
metmuseum.org/toah/hd/gust/hd_ gust.htm (Links to an external site.) - Metropolitan Mueum of Art essay: Édouard Manet (1832–1883) http://www.
metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mane/hd_ mane.htm (Links to an external site.)
- Impressionism
- Metropolitan Mueum of Art essay: Claude Monet (1840–1926) http://www.
metmuseum.org/toah/hd/cmon/hd_ cmon.htm (Links to an external site.) - Metropolitan Mueum of Art essay: Edgar Degas (1834–1917): Painting and Drawing http://www.metmuseum.
org/toah/hd/dgsp/hd_dgsp.htm ( Links to an external site.)
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Realism is an art movement that originated in France in the 1850s as a result of the social and political disruption of the time. During this time, the industrial revolution created a big chasm in social class and artists started to reject romanticism art and focused more on paintings that depicted everyday life and problems.
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