Realism1820-1920

Characteristics seeks the truth beauty in everyday life. Focused on the Industrial Revolution and

the conditions of working class.

Realism

Dance - Realism: Folk and Social Dance

In US, dance was a social interaction In New England and the South

well bred if studied dance On the Frontier/Out West

dancing was fun and frolic. country fairs, log rolling, quilting parties,

and special celebrations. The highlight of the night would be a

dance.

Dance - Realism: Folk and Social Dance In the 1830’s dance was condemned by

Puritan (sinful.) Dancing-accepted pastime of the middle

and upper classes. Types:

Waltz, Polka, York and the Virginia Reel. Square Dance

Man and Woman, A “caller” would yell out instructions.

danced in town squares or barns

Drama/Theatre – Realism

Revolt against the romanticism and melodrama in plays.

Writers created plays with more natural speech and real situations.

The plays looked more like real life and problems in society.

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Norway “father of realism.” social issue plays A Doll’s House

how women were treated by their husbands.

Women not capable of making important decisions

Children-“property” of the fathers.

If a wife left her husband, she also left her children

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Pygmalion-- problem of

looking down on others because of their speech or accents My Fair Lady1 My Fair Lady2

realistically multi-layered characters with spoken accents.

made his point about social issues through comedy.

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

Most successful Pulitzer Prize for Death Of a Salesman (1949)

about a poor salesman, who isn’t any good and very ordinary.

The Crucible—Witch-hunts that persecute innocent people. Satire of the McCarthyism of the late 1940s and

early 50s (Red Scare-hunt for communists in America)

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)

most popular American playwright of realistic tragedies

Family issues and turmoil The Glass Menagerie(1945)

His earliest and best known Cat On a Hot Tin Roof- (1954) Street Car Named Desire (1947) Suddenly Last Summer

Music– Realism

There was never a style of music that could be called realistic.

Composers used nationalism and common folk tunes.

Operas were composed using the common man as characters.

Bizet’s Carmen is about love and loss between a soldier and a girl that works in a Spanish cigarette Factory.

Realism-ArtCharacteristics

Life size paintingsThick paintCommon People

Camera invented

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)

Painted: religious, mythological, common things and people.

Painted how things really were.

life-size paintings-the viewer felt they were in the painting.

first to use a palette knife instead of a brush.

later part of his life painting landscapes.

Portrait of Juliette Courbet as a Sleeping Child 1841

Courbet with a black dog (1842)

The hammock (1844)

The cellist self portrait (1847)

Self Portrait (1848-49)

A Burial at Ornans 1849-50

Woman at her spinning wheel (1853)

La Rencontre ou Bonjore (1854)

The beach at Palavas (1854)

The Painter's Studio; A Real Allegory (1855 )

Les Domiselles des bords de la Siene (1856-57)

Beatrice Bouvet (1864)

Jo, the beautiful Irishwoman (1866)

A Thicket of Deer at the Stream of Plaisir-Fontaine 1866

The Calm Sea (1869)

The Stormy Sea (or The Wave) 1869

Landscape with stag (1873)

Cascading waterfall (1875)

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

Caught people in a moment in time, like a photograph.

painted common people doing everyday things.

The Luncheon on the Grass, people enjoying a picnic

in the park. Considered “unfinished,”

The public was shocked to see these were just everyday people like themselves!

Music in the Tuileries gardens(1862)

Vase de Pivonines sur Piedouche (1864)

Racetrack near Paris (1864)

Grapes, Peaches and Almonds 1864

The bullfight (1865)

Luncheon on the Grass (1865)

The Fifer (1866)

The Balcony (1869)

On the beach at Boulogne (1869)

The Railroad (1872)

Croquet (1873)

On the beach (1873)

Portrait of Berthe Morisot (1873)

The grand canal, Venice (1874)

Boating (1874)

Mery Laurent aux seins nus (1876)

Man with beer (1878)

Young Girl on the Threshold of the Garden at Bellevue 1880

Fillette sur un Banc (1880)

A bar at the Folies Bergere (1882)