December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
More than simply representation, realism is the idea that the artwork presents a neutral and inclusive view of the world.
This is an idea that emerges perennially in art. In the late sixteenth century, Caravaggio (1571–1610) shocked and galvanized his viewers by using common people as models and including such realistic details as dirty fingernails and soiled clothing. Realism emerged again in the mid-nineteenth century as a powerful antidote to the foregoing Romantic movement. It emerged once more in the social realism of the 1920s and again with the Super-Realist movement of the 1970s.
The idea that realist art presents a nonselective, non-filtered view of the world is generally deceptive. Choice of viewpoint, subject matter, scale, ...