Realism Era Visual Art

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Realism EraVisual Art
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Realism

• Depiction of subjects as they appear in everyday
  life, without embellishment or interpretation.
• Also, works of art which, in revealing a truth,
  may emphasize the ugly or sordid.

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Artists to Know

• Gustave Courbet dark colors, men at work
• Eduard Manet First modern painter, wanted to
  be truly original
• Henry O. Tanner African-American painter,
  everyday life among poor blacks
• Matthew Brady Civil War photographer

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Gustav Courbet The Stone Breakers
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Courbet Burial at Ornans
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Eduard Manet

• The Young Flautist
• Or, The Fifer

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Henry O. TannerThe Banjo Lesson
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Manet The Luncheon on the Grass
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Manet-- Olympia
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Matthew Brady
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