Resumen Literatura En Ingles

REALISM
1889: Eiffel Tower – symbol of Realism, Technology, late 19th century.
Iron – industry (art could be done)
Men control world around them
English & Romanticism – meant progressAdvances in industry and engineering – art progress
Historical types were copied by architects
*Cast = molded (used molds now on to make several identical pieces)
1° Cast iron (new material)
2° Sheetmetal (molds)
1850: Crystal Palace (designed by J. Paxton)
Iron’s glasses structures
Done to perform the “Great Exhibition of Industry…”, product of technology and Industrial Rev.
Subject matterof painting changed: emotion – realistic view (poor people)
COURBET Realistic Romantic
Socialist, delicate paintings, subtle colors, detailed, slick
Neoclassicism VS Realism
Duty of art –reveal the truth
Karl Marx: life = survive
Man’s struggle: literature, art – subject

IMPRESSIONISM
MANET “Exhibit of the Rejected”
Simply, flat, bold colors
Colors – flatten forms, dimensional,natural poses
Photographs – cameras liberate art
Artist – own inspiration, individual point of view, personal technique, hasty
Boats (fouling studios)
MONET Recorded the effect of lightUninterested in settings – subject: air and light – objects, area, outdoors
Used brilliant colors. Set drown individual parts of pure color
Worked rapidly (light would go away)

POST IMPRESSIONISMSEURAT (pointillism) & CEZANNE (perspectives, stable-inner geometric forms): painted miniatures of the world
VAN GOGH & GAUGUIN : creative eyes, subjective reality
Symbolism wasn’t externalreality, was abstract, forms & forces
SEURAT: assembled forms in space – pointillism, solid forms, scientific method.
CEZANNE: Formalism – structure and technique, geometrical shapes of natureperspective/colors/own depth, implied motion and the passage of time
PICASSO & BRAQUE: Cubism
VAN GOGH – Colors expressed brilliance, agitated struggling...