1. Realism, and Photorealism
By: Sadie Hepler

2. 1800’s and 1900’s
Realism-beginning of modern art.
Modern world and everyday life is art.
Uncover new truths through constant reexamination of traditional values and believes.
First nonconformist art movement.
Realist painters took more interest into the social aspect of the art monarchy.
Realist artists focused on the world around them, specifically poverty and real life events.
Gustave Courbet, a burial at ornans

3. Jean Francois Millet
Jean-François Millet was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers.
This painting The Gleaners is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what the lowest ranks of rural society were then.

4. Honore Daumier
French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.
He was an extremely prolific artist. Prolific meaning he made many works.
Rue transnonain

5. The Wheat Sifters By: Gustave Courbet 1854
The Wheat Sifters is an example of the simple realism that Courbet used in his work.
This Art piece illustrates the unclean walls, bored look on the face of the lying woman, and the disheveled hair of the curious boy. As Courbet used actual figures for his paintings, it is said that the two women in the painting are his two sisters Zoe and Juliet, and the boy is actually his illegitimate son, Desire Binet.

6. The Desperate Man By: Gustave Courbet 1845
Many of Courbet’s early paintings from the 1840’s are self-portraits, such as this one. As he had yet to truly develop his realistic painting style, many of these self-portraits are Romantic in style, illustrating the smooth lines and perfection of form of the Romantic school of painting.

7. PHOTOREALISM
-Photorealism is the genre of painting based on using cameras and photographs to gather visual information, and then taking that and creating a painting that portrays to be photographic.
Photorealism movement began in the US during the 1960’s, this movement was in many ways reactionary to ever growing production of photographic media.

8. Duane Hanson
Hanson concentrated on the naked fact of the subject, an astonishingly persuasive counterfeit of another human being as a fully realised physical presence.
For example this piece called Queenie II can be understood on one level as the personification of all those resigned- looking women who drag their bodies around in pursuit of the mess created by the rest of us.

9. Ralph goings born in the great depression.
began painting at a very young age, sometimes when he would paint he resorted to splashing house paint across canvasses of bed sheets when proper materials were unavailable.
He was a major player in the rise of the American Photorealist movement,
His paintings always involved normal components of American society, like hamburger stands, condiments, and diners. (Body Reflection)

10. Richard Estes Considered a founder of the Photorealist movement
best known for his paintings of city scenes in New York.
Estes reconstructs reality in highly convincing renderings. He often incorporates reflective surfaces, such as shop windows and shiny cars, yielding mirrored imagery that serves to enhance what the naked eye is capable of perceiving (Telephone Booth by Richard Estes.)

11. Quiz
1.What are the different ideas of realism between Daumier’s art work, and Duane Hanson Art piece.
Honore Daumier, Rue transnonain
Duane Hanson, Queenie II

12. 2. What was Richard Estes best known for?
3. What does Courbet illustrate in this painting?
4. Realist painters took more interest in what part of the Art Monarchy?

13. 5. What is the title of this painting?
6.Who are the people in this art piece?
7. What is photorealism?
8. Who was considered a founder of the photorealist movement?

14. 9. Who was the artist?
10. What is the name of this art piece?