art trends 1814-1914. early 1800’s 1800-1850 romanticism!
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Romanticism
• Backlash against the Enlightenment
• Backlash against early Industrialization
• Pro-Religion
Realism• Industrialism full swing. Cities.
• REALISTIC portrayal of human suffering
• Courbet and Millet
Realism 1855Fernand Desnoyers
“Realism is the true depiction of objects . . . We must admit that (without being an apologist for
ugliness and evil) realism has the right to represent whatever exists and whatever we see . . .
Realism 1855Fernand Desnoyers
. . . Now no one is denied the right to like what is false, ridiculous, or faded and to call it the ideal and poetry; but . . .
Realism 1855Fernand Desnoyers
. . . it is permissible to deny that this mythology is our world, in which it is perhaps high time we took a look around.”