FSN 232 Study Guide - Final Guide: Joseph Paxton, Walter Gropius, Mary Cassatt
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19th century an age of revolutions (the culmination of enlightenment thinking and a new focus on social equality) clashes between different classes of people. Invention of the steam engine and new materials like iron and steel. Social and political movements for the rights of workers. These people who work in the fields are noble and heroic Darkness in the front lit up in the back Railway barron- people became very wealthy because of the railway land owners became more wealthy poor became poorer. She would cross dress to be allowed entrance to slaughter houses to sketch anatomies. Close relationship with realism and other movements of the time. 1894 first female artist with the legion of honour. Interior of my studio: a real allegory summing up. Seven years of my life as an artist from 1848 to. Amplified importance of himself , rejected historical painting, idealism and fantasy.