My Art Awareness theme for December was "realism".
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Here is some information on Realism adapted from a description given at web site in Paris, France that shows images of paintings at the Louvré.
Here also adapted is a description of the Realism style as done by the artist Jean Millet.
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Notes to Teacher: as with the Louvré web site, the one I referenced at the time of this web offering does not appear to be available today.
During the Art Awareness presentation, I also followed some links to an Ansel Adams web site and showed some images of his photographs. I asked some questions of the students: Do these pictures qualify as Art? Can they be consider as examples of realism?
We talked about the fact that in 1850 during the Realism movement cameras and photographs were not yet invented. As a result, people painted very detailed pictures and portraits where today we might simply take a photograph.
In picking the links to the images for Ansel Adams, I tried to contrast
a photographic era approach to "Realism" with an 1850's approach. Thus, I
showed a plaza with people and a man and his horse. This last one, I
suggested, was probably closest in subject matter to the style of the
Jean Millet picture.
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