Realism 1848 1870s Gustav Courbet the unofficial leader of the Realists in 1848 Show me an angel and I ll paint one Courbet The Stone Breakers 1849 Displayed at the Salon The people hated it Showed poverty and the bad aspects of French society Shows the problems of capitalist values and bourgeoisie Courbet Burial at Omans 1849 Also displayed at the Salon Deeply troubled the French audience Shows death in an anti heroic way Workers Revolts of 1848 Spurred by the publication of Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto Violent clashes in Germany Italy Poland England and France A proletariat government runs France for a little bit The Avant Garde in Paris ca 1865 Edouard Manet an independent maverick socialite dandy Trains within the Academy Very much taken with the portrayal of real life scenes by Courbet he continues the realist into the 1870s Manet Le Dejeuner sur l herbe Luncheon on the Grass 60 rejection rate in the Salon Alexandre Cabanel The Birth of Venus Salon of 1863 was accepted into the Salon while Manet s painting was rejected The Salon des Refuses 1863 Manet s Luncheon on the Grass and other rejected Avant Garde experiments are given a separate room at the Salon in 1863 the color patch laying down color in big splotches Manet s style The Academy didn t like this style Manet thought that painting was competing with photography so a new style would save the art of painting Painting since the proto renaissance has been moving towards attaining realism Another work finished by Manet in 1863 and exhibited in the Academy Salon of 1885 Manet Olympia 1863 Thomas Eakins States a student of the Academy Painter Gerome in Paris but a Realist back in the United Lost his teaching job in Philadelphia more than once for demanding that his female students study from a live nude male model Eakins The Gross Clinic 1875 Painted for a hospital hall in Philadelphia but they didn t want it out Eakins use photography to make his paintings more accurate used it as a tool instead of seeing it as a threat to painting
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