Gustave Courbet Gleaners

While the painters after the Impressionism period were collectively called the “Post-Impressionists,” the label is quite reductive. Each artist had their own unique style, from Seurat’s pointillism to Signac’s mosaic-like divisionism, Cezanne, Émile Bernard, and others. These artists were all connected in that they were reacting to the aesthetics of Impressionism. Two of the more influential painters from this movement were Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who aimed to connect with viewers on a deeper level by access Nature’s mystery and meaning beyond its superficial, observable level. However, each artist’s approach to achieving this goal was different. In close examination of Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Paul Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Émile Bernard (Les misérables), one may clearly see the two artists’ contrasting styles on display.

What makes realistic art, be it any form of art e.g. literature, paintings, sculptures? Art as a whole is based on relation to an individual or to a society. In the focus of visions of realism a common theme in short stories relating to realism is that the idea of something being ‘real’ might not actually be real. The point of this idea is to convey that individual thought is created from one's own environment and community. This idea is seen in several short stories such as The. The idea that humans are assimilated into groups or communities from which they originate is evident in the short stories “Allegory of the Cave” by Plato and “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Through its depictions of the new age of materialism, Realism eventually became a symbol for the bourgeoisie who had, from humbler origins, recently risen to new positions of power within the Parisian government. Nevertheless, Realist works had begun to gain acceptance in salons only reluctantly; some still scorned their work as “monstrously ugly”.

Realism is the period in American literature from 1860 to 1890. This movement in writing focused on writing about how things really appeared and how they really were instead of writing in a dark manner. The stories, Life On The Mississippi and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County written by Mark Twain best represent the realism movement in American literature at this time.

Realism was a direct result of the social and economic changes of the 19th century in Europe. It originated in France in the after the Revolutions of 1848, which were a series of political outbreaks throughout Europe. It was around 1906, when Jonas Lie discovered the beauty of impressionism in Claude Monet’s paintings when he went on a trip to Paris while visiting Norway to reconnect with the Norwegian side of his family. He was fascinated by Monet’s use of color and light and incorporated that style in his later works. Lie’s artistic talent in mixing the two art styles is evident, as seen in his painting Dusk on Lower Broadway. (See fig 1.) The brushstrokes look like they were made quickly but with precision, creating a piece of art that looks realistic from far

because of the odd position of his body and feet - it looks as if he

The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting, 83.8 cm × 111.8 cm (33 in × 44 in), created by French realist painter Jean-Francois Millet in 1857. The piece of oil painting vividly depicts the nineteenth-century French rural life, with a rich flavor of harvest.

Realism occurs everyday, one may not know but its the reason why know not everyone gets to live their lives to a happy ending, its the reason why sometimes you can't get everything you want in your life. Realism is the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly. Realism is a trend which takes place in the nineteenth century during which literature depicted life "as is," and focuses on real life. This literary movement frequently depicted everyday life; it follows the rule of a phenomenal world and that nothing is added to your life. It is the reverse job of what a filter would do to all the troubles that one may encounter later in life. Realism is

I have found the realism arts to be very fascinating. The three pieces of art that I will be discussing are Francisco Goya's The Third of May, 1808 oil on canvas 8ft 9 in. x 13ft 4in, Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, 1830 oil on canvas 8 ft 6 3/8 in. x 10ft. 8 in. and Honore Daumier, Fight between Schools, Idealism and Realism, 1855 Caricature

Realism is the artistic attempt to recreate life as it is in the context of an artistic medium. It began as a revolt against the conventions of the classic view of art in the late 1800s in America and Europe in the form of an artistic movement (McConnel, R. 1997). There are many themes involved with realism that shall be discussed. These include accuracy and independence.

Realism, in contrast to Romanticism, represents the reality of life in America. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, America experienced enormous industrial, economic, social, and cultural change. Realism focuses on showing everyday activities and events among the middle and lower class society without romantic ideas. In the early 20th century people started to pull away from fantasy and started focusing on the reality around them. Realism emphasises on truth, class, and social commentary.

Everyone could relate to realism because it was more realistic. Realism lasted through the mid 19th century and included writers such as Flaubert, Zola, and Dickens.

Realism: During the middle and late 19th century, around the time this painting was composed, the dominant intellectual and artistic perspective throughout Great Britain was Realism.

In the 19th century, there were two artists who were famous for their paintings of working class, Jean-François Millet and Gustave Millet. In Millet’s painting The Gleaners, he painted three women bending over to reach out for left-over grains, which showed the combination of women and subservience to create a sense of collective harmony. The action of gleaning, when the wealthier owners have harvested their corps and the poor are entitles to pick up whatever is left over, is a biblical reference-comes from old testament. Although those women were the lowest-class individuals of the society, even in the working class, they were put in the right settings and gestures which suites their working-class identities. Viewers can forget about individual painfulness in favor of collective harmony by showing the dignity of multiple gleaners moving rhythmically together. The Gleaners received tremendous popularity of this painting the 19th century. He painted about the working class to show his sympathy and sentimental approach towards working class, and also to support his opinion of anti-bourgeois. He allowed viewers to take multiple position in relation to his work, wither in natural empathic reaction of sympathy for poverty versus monumental dignity of organized motion, or in dilemma between polite taste and radical opinions. According to the reading The Absolute Bourgeois by T.J. Clark, the author quoted from Rochery, who compare Millet with Courbet to show Millet’s true love of country: “M.Millet’s picture is certainly painted from life, like M. Courbet’s, but one can sense greater spontaneity and depth in the painter’s impressions, a truer love of country life and country people. ” In Courbet’s painting The Stonebreaker, he painted two stonebreakers, who were engaging in the most brutal and

Realism was a huge movement in late 1800s to early 1900s. All art forms were influenced by it. Writers, artists, actors and more started taking a more simple direction and tried to depict life as it actually was. In visual art it was common to see ordinary people doing every day