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The Realist movement in French art flourished from about 1840 until the late nineteenth century, and sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life. Realism emerged in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1848 that overturned the monarchy of Louis-Philippe and developed during the period of the Second Empire under Napoleon III.
- Sheepshearing Beneath a Tree
"Nineteenth century French drawings, California Palace of...
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Yokohama Museum of Art. "Treasures from The Metropolitan...
- Retreat From the Storm
This is the earliest treatment of the composition, of which...
- The Third-Class Carriage
French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The...
- The War Council
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints:...
- The Ashcan School
The term Ashcan School was suggested by a drawing by Bellows...
- Object Moved
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Selections from the...
- Woman with a Rake
Susan Alyson Stein in Treasures from The Metropolitan Museum...
- Sheepshearing Beneath a Tree
1 sty 2007 · This special issue of French Studies examines a body of narratives featuring French art and artists published at representative periods during the nineteenth century (in both French and English).
This essay proposes to explore the ways in which French art informs the world of Dorian Gray, focusing on the French writers who provided Wilde with a template to portray homosexuality, and studying how he transformed the minor French arts of lace- and perfume-making into his language of aestheticism.
28 maj 2011 · And it includes Émile Zola (1840–1902), the first of whose twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart series had just been started and who would dominate French literature (or at least the novel genre) until its completion in 1892.
The Impressionists had in effect announced a new epoch that liberated art from the "stuffy" authority of academic art and, using vivid colors, and with a focus on everyday subjects, painted en plein air (on location rather than in a studio), set the scene for a modern art fit for a modern age.
19 lip 2021 · This paper introduces the French sociology of art to English-speaking scholars. Its story begins with a shift from the humanities to social sciences through the use of empirical methods, and a change in focus from artworks to the social conditions of their production, mediation, and reception.
11 sty 2017 · The Impressionists’ decision to organize an exhibition independent of the Salon was a bold move—critics referred to it as “revolutionary”—that positioned them in opposition to the French art establishment. After 1874, the group organized seven more exhibitions, the last one in 1886.
