Victorian Era

Victorian Art

Victorian art (as its name suggests) is referring to the development of the arts in the Victorian Era. The Victorian art where those of mixing and reviving old art movements with the Asian and the Middle-Eastern cultural influences. This movement is not based on ‘’art’’ in the sense that all of this led to new designs of textiles, furniture and interior design. 

Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Victorian decorative arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_decorative_arts. [Accessed 05 March 2013].

Gustave Courbet

Gustav Courbet

Gustav Courbet is the painter that started and ruled the French movement toward Realism. Everyone was getting used to pictures that made life look better than it was. However, Courbet, truthfully portrait ordinary places and people.

Courbet was born on June 10, 1819, to a farming family in Ornans, France. In 1841, he went to Paris to study law but instead, he studied painting and learned by copying pictures of other artists. In 1844, his self-portrait ‘Courbet with a Black Dog’, was accepted by an annual public exhibition of art.

In 1849 Courbet visited his family in the countryside and produced “The Stone-Breakers” followed by ‘Burial in Ornans’. Both paintings were unlike romantic pictures of the day because they showed peasants in realistic settings “instead of the rich in glamourized situations”. Gustav Courbet his work himself near the exhibition hall when one of his huge canvases was refused for an important exhibition.

By 1859, he was the leader of the new generation of the French realist movement. The artist painted all varieties of subjects such as portraits, nudes and also scenes of nature.

                                 "Self Portrait"

Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism. [Accessed 02 March 2013].

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was an era where a lot of changes occurred in many things such as; the manufacture of metals, agriculture etc. The term ‘’revolution’’ in this context is used in the sense that it brought a great change of how things were done such as the production in agriculture (the further improvements done to increase food, wood an cotton production), in metallurgy a certain Abraham Darby managed to smelt pig iron with coke (which lessened the amount of trees which where chopped down to create fires to smelt the iron thus providing more wood for other things). 

Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution. [Accessed 02 March 2013].

81.02.06: The Industrial Revolution. 2013. 81.02.06: The Industrial Revolution. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1981/2/81.02.06.x.html. [Accessed 02 March 2013].

Realism

Realism

Realism (also known as Naturalism) was an art movement which first started in France and was used to revolt against the Romanticism Art movement. In general, realist artists sought to capture the detail and precision of the everyday situations of every individual in the classes of society while avoiding the emotion and drama in which it was seen in Romanticist paintings.

Realism (arts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)#Visual_arts. [Accessed 02 March 2013].

Realism - Realism Art. 2013. Realism - Realism Art. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c19th/realism.htm. [Accessed 03 March 2013].

Romanticism - Franciso Goya

Francisco Goya

Francesco Goya was a painter and a printmaker that lived in the Romanticism Era and was a court painter for the Spanish Crown. Goya is known best for his artworks depicting scenes of great violence like his famous “Los desastres de la Guerra” in which he paints and projects the Napoleonic war in Spain. Goya had a house in called Quinta del Sordo and in this house he had his 14 ‘’Black Paintings’’ which one of them was “Saturn devouring his child” (which people believed it was symbolizing the politics of Spain in that time) and also “Witches’ Sabbath”. These paintings have references of witchcraft and war on them. He is also known to be ‘’the first modern artist’’ because from his view the artist should use vision rather than tradition.

                                 "Saturn Devouring his Son"

                           

                                   "Witches' Sabbath"

Francisco De Goya - The complete works. 2013. Francisco De Goya - The complete works. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.franciscodegoya.net/. [Accessed 05 March 2013].

Francisco Goya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Francisco Goya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya. [Accessed 05 March 2013]

Romanticism

Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic Era) is an artistic (and a cultural movement) which its origins started way back in the end of the 18^th century and from Europe. The movement was used as a reaction to the Industrial Age and as a rebellion against the politics and social issues of that time. The influence of Romanticism on art was that the artists began drawing landscapes containing storms, wild landscapes and Gothic structures.  The traits of romanticism were those of featuring great simplicity and natural opposite of the styles that came before romanticism such as the Renaissance, Neo-classical etc… which favored grandeur, complexity and details.

Romanticism [ONLINE] Available at: http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html 

Romanticism- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Romanticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism. [Accessed 02 March 2013].