HOA 106 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture II Subject matter Continued a Escape i Nature as sublime ii Nature vs Civilization iii Fascination with Native Americans b Exoticism Escape to the East c Historicism Escape to the Past Outline of Current Lecture III Historicism continued IV Realism a Ideas i Industrialism ii Socialism iii Urbanism iv Social Activism v Literature and Documentary Photography V Painting a France b America Current Lecture Lecture 3 5 15 Historicism continued o The Gothic Revival emphasized melancholy and remoteness of medieval times Abbey in the Oak Forest Strawberry Hill British House of Parliament King Ludwig 2 of Bavaria Neuschwanstein Castle Original inspiration of Disney s Magic Kingdom These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Archimedes Russell Crouse College Alexander Jackson Davis the Gothic Cottage Made the gothic revival style a popular domestic form In Cazenovia New York Carpenter Gothic the Wedding Cake House o American interpretation of the gothic revival in which elaborate wooden ornament is applied to an existing structure Realism a reaction against Romanticism Ideas o o Industrialism Invention of the camera Louis Daguerra invents the daguerreotype Socialism Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto o o Urbanism Cities had poor conditions with crowded and dirty housing No regulations of the work force and no labor unions Everyone worked even children Charles Dickens the Old Curiosity Shop and Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Social Activism o o Advocated for the overthrow of the upper classes by revolution Elizabeth Cady Stanton Declaration of Sentiments Literature Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour Documentary Photography Painting o Realism was a reaction against romantic escapism The English pre raphaelites Biblical and mythological subjects populated by contemporary English urban types o John Everett Millais Christ in the House of His Parents o Caused controversy because Christ and people of the bible were never shown as anything but beautiful Here they are displayed as workers France Gustave Courbet o Shocked the public doesn t exist anymore because it was destroyed in WW2 there is no moral lesson or interesting subject o Depicted the lowest status job Burial at Ornans o Symbolizes the common peasants and ugly surroundings of the French lower class o The grave is simply a hole in the ground burial of Romanticism Jean Francois Millet The Stone Breakers The Gleaners o Lowest form of work Workers pick up whatever the tractor has left behind o Nobility of work The Barbizon School of Landscape Group of artist who represent the beauty of the Barbizon Forest which was threatened by railroad construction Theodore Rousseau Under the Birches Evening Edouard Manet Olympia o Everyone knows this woman so it is more shocking o Cat is shown on the side Luncheon on the Grass o Woman shown naked clothes to the side with two men who are clothed o Shocked the public by representing nudity in a contemporary public context Spokesperson for the lower class Was a painter and illustrator who employed satire in order to achieve social awareness Third Class Carriage o Un erotic portrait of a high class prostitute Actresses were considered the same as prostitutes then Honore Daumier o o Carriage railroad car o Woman is shown breastfeeding a baby on her way to work The whole family is depicted on a crowded railroad car riding to their factory jobs Nadar Elevating Photography to the Heights of Art o Satire of photography and its artistic pretensions o Makes fun of the photography revolution Louis Philippe Transforming into a Pear o Pear is French slang for simpleton o The king did not like this so he put the artist in prison Lithography America Winslow Homer Snap the Whip Homer worked around the Adirondacks Representation of American rural life Dressed as regular people living the American life Thomas Eakins Gross Clinic Mid century hero of modern life presented as a self made working man A man was considered heroic for the work he does work for the middle class Heroic American doctor who pioneered the use of anesthetic in surgery Similar to Rembrandt