HISTORY 2DF3 Lecture Notes - Italian Renaissance Painting, History Painting, Genre Art
10 Dec 2013
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Use terms on the powerpoint. (realist and explain). This work was shown at the salon an the critical response to it was negative because they thought he was speaking against the government. Taking a genre scene previously on used for history painting and changing it. Provisonal government set up after phillipe abdicated in 1848. Over the next months the provisional government held elections and established the second republic. Conservative viewers responded as a critiques of progress in agriculture. What millet thought was reality was to them a critique. Breton s the recall of the gleaners in comparison. Bretons has gleaners standing upright and all seems well. Not like he went out and saw this exact view. Realist works are not supposed to be like a photograph. Political content making a statement around the subject matter that you see. From artist"s perspective it was not a conscious decision. The works were received that way by the public.
