art final: realism in france

- immediately drew negative criticism from the middle and upper classes -prosperous classes saw the painting as glorifying the lower-class worker -the three women show the stages to the thankless task -

Jean-Francois Millet, The Gleaners, Salon of 1857

-artist Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism -dark colors and thick technique gives painting weight -public didn't like the ugliness of the people and how ordinary the scene was -

Gustave Courbet, After Dinner at Ornans, 1849, Salon of 1849

-Courbet depicts figures who wear ripped and tattered clothing(unideal) -The hill reaches to the top of the canvas everywhere but the upper right corner, where a tiny patch of bright blue sky appears. The effect is to isolate these laborers, and to suggest that they are physically and economically trapped. -chose a man too young and a man too old to show the hardships of the rural life - Courbet's brushwork is rough significantly to show that he did not like the polished neoclassical style -

Courbet, The Stone Breakers, 1849, Salon of 1850-51 (5 x 8 feet)

- sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life. - the Realists democratized art by depicting modern subjects drawn from the everyday lives of the working class -Realism was based on direct observation of the modern world -long favored at the official Salons -

Realism in France