Realism
depicts the world, its events, and people as they really are. There is no
personification of people as mythological beings, no one is glorified,
romanticizing anyone or anything is out. Realism is a social commentary on the
world in which we live. Artists took the common and ordinary, and elevated them
to a higher status.
The focus of Realism is on the
common man. For too long the workers, peasants, and laborers of life were never
the subject of art. Why? For one thing, common people never had the money to
commission works of art. No farmer could trade crops for a portrait of himself
farming, for instance. Nor did common people have the money to go to museums,
Salons, or Academies of Art. And this despite making up the vast majority of
people on Earth.
Artists like Gustave Courbet felt
the need to depict ordinary people and show the rest of society what their
lives were like. It was social commentary, pure and simple.
Do you like this style of art?
No one of the pictures of realism that I have seen do not impresses me. I prefer Cubism and Postimpressionism. But there is one picture which I like. It is Volga Boatmen by Repin.
ОтветитьУдалитьIf you want to have calm atmosphere in your room, realism is better than anything else to have. I like this style of art because artists are to be very talented to draw things as they are. And I can imagine the process of drawing and be impressed.
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