Realism in terms of Visual Art
Realism In the visual art world
Realism has evolved from its opposite over the years and blossomed into something truly credible. Realism is a part of everyone’s life even though one may have not been able to recognize it. After reading this paper one should see realism everywhere. Because it is our lives and everything we see. Realism artwork comes from average people’s lives. It is what an artist chooses to show and what people sometimes choose to ignore. In order to understand this form of visual art, one must look back in time to where it originated from. And then look at today and draw the connections to what is happening in modern art now. Realism has come up in many forms of art like literal, visual, preforming and even music. The focus of this paper will be on a visual artists take on what realism is. First of all, what does the term realism mean? Realism by definition is, “…an attempt to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life.”(Rosewell311). To show life exactly as one see’s them was not always the objective of artists. It began as the complete opposite of that. Realism stemmed off of a different term called romanticism. In the 1760’s and 1780’s artists from Rome like Henry Fuseli, James Barry, and John Flaxman began to paint differently than the traditional way. These artists are the first few who began to work with romanticism. Before these painters subjects of paintings were about myths and things which average humans were unable to achieve. But that new syle focused on feelings that lived inside us. (Encyclopedia Britannica ).. “Romanticism cannot be identified with a single style, technique, or attitude, but romantic painting is generally characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, and a dreamlike or visionary quality.”(Rosewell311) The things that were glorified
Realism has evolved from its opposite over the years and blossomed into something truly credible. Realism is a part of everyone’s life even though one may have not been able to recognize it. After reading this paper one should see realism everywhere. Because it is our lives and everything we see. Realism artwork comes from average people’s lives. It is what an artist chooses to show and what people sometimes choose to ignore. In order to understand this form of visual art, one must look back in time to where it originated from. And then look at today and draw the connections to what is happening in modern art now. Realism has come up in many forms of art like literal, visual, preforming and even music. The focus of this paper will be on a visual artists take on what realism is. First of all, what does the term realism mean? Realism by definition is, “…an attempt to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life.”(Rosewell311). To show life exactly as one see’s them was not always the objective of artists. It began as the complete opposite of that. Realism stemmed off of a different term called romanticism. In the 1760’s and 1780’s artists from Rome like Henry Fuseli, James Barry, and John Flaxman began to paint differently than the traditional way. These artists are the first few who began to work with romanticism. Before these painters subjects of paintings were about myths and things which average humans were unable to achieve. But that new syle focused on feelings that lived inside us. (Encyclopedia Britannica ).. “Romanticism cannot be identified with a single style, technique, or attitude, but romantic painting is generally characterized by a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, and a dreamlike or visionary quality.”(Rosewell311) The things that were glorified