ARTH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Awakening Conscience, Academic Art, Genre Art
26 Aug 2016
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Similar to the enlightenment, but technology driven, it"s quantitative\ Corot first leaves (1855: he paints only what he sees, it doesn"t matter if it"s a genre scene or a landscape, it just is what it is. Barbizon school reality itself is the proper subject of art. Not high renaissance classicism, not moralizing images, just images of life as you see it. Rosetti ecce ancillo domini (annunciation) (1850: opposed problems of modern life, doesn"t necessarily copy medieval art, it just tries to create a feeling of it. If you put the two pictures together, the woman awakens and follows the light of spirituality. Millais ophelia (1852: extremely realistic, serves mostly as a look back to older times, ophelia has nothing to do with modern life, this is the essence of pre-raphaelitism. The rise in journalism allows people a larger influence, this is an age of mass media.
