REALISM

Nicole Matejková 2.B

 PAITING IN REALISM
Unique features:
• The Use of Color- warmer hues and color palettes such as extensive use of soft browns, warm reds,
black and ivory hues. Modern-day realists still use warm palettes, but play more with cooler color combinations to
create startling effects.
• The Importance of Detail-Completely opposite of the soft look of romantic Impressionism, Realist
painters include as much detail as possible in their work. Shadows, light reflecting off of surfaces, depth perception and
perspective
• Common Subjects in Realism-French artists initially used realism to sarcastically depict political issues
and problems. Other artists incorporated realism by painting scenes of the working class, rural and urban life and
portraits dealing with the naked body. Artists strove to create works that were raw and natural -- as close to a
photograph as possible

French Title: Le Marché aux Chevaux

Artist: Rosa Bonheur
Year: 1853
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A BURIAL AT ORNANS
Example of typical realistic painting
• French Title: Un enterrement à Ornans
• Artist: Gustave Courbet
• Year: 1850

This painting depicts the funeral of the great-uncle of Gustave Courbet in the small town of
Ornans in France.I think that this painting represent realism very well, because you can see all
the unique features there.
 SCULPRURE IN REALISM
• New Sculpture irrespective of subject matter or conceptual reference
• The themes of sculptures ware work, ordinary life and also represented queens and kings of
some important places
• Mostly greek sculpruters carved like life/real replicas of their models
• The most famous sculpturest: Auguste Rodin,
here you can see his most famous sculpture of that time, The thinker

Roman Realism, the author is unknown

• New casting techniques, desired effect in bronze
• Sculptures were more detailed
• They did not have too much artistic freedom due toto selling their
work and high prices of sculptures

Frampton's Lamia, Stirling Lee Gilbert's St. George, Harry Bates

 Realistic sculpture now
• Luo Li Rong is a Chinese. At a very young age she began sculpting and she studied
art at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. There she immersed herself
in classical figurative sculpture. The goal was to be one in spirit with the model.
ARCHITECTURE
• name given by
British architects
from the 1840s
• emphasise the 'real'
nature of building
forms and materials
in the buildings
they designed
• New materials such
as concrete,iron
and steel
 Iron and steel architecture
• This style developed during 19th century
• The new materials such as steel,metal,concrete... And the new ways of
producing them spread their use an cities create a new look

This New library of St. Geneviève is great example, you can see the round
windows a lot of concrete, and inside a lot of metal
 LITERATURE
Many types such as:
• Social realism- A type of realism that focuses on the lives and living conditions of the working class and the
poor

• Kitchen sink realism-f ocuses on the lives of young working-class British men

• Socialist realism- Created by Joseph Stalin and adopted by Communists. Socialist realism glorifies the
struggles of the proletariat. Cement by Fyodor Gladkov (1925)

• Naturalism- An extreme form of realism influenced by Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution

• Psychological realism- A type of realism that’s character-driven, focusing on what motivates them to make
certain decisions and why.

WILIAM JAMES STEPHEN

HOWELS HENRY GRANE
These are one of the most realistic stories in
books which you can them buy today
 LITERATURE- Magical Realism
Personally, searching throuh the interned this fascinates me
• Magical realism is a literary genre that has sometimes frustrated critics who have
been unable to define the style with any precision
• Magical realism as the name would imply, is a story that is set in a mostly realistic
setting, but with some magical elements. Often, magical realism features social or
political commentary.
Most popular authors of this ganre
• Latin American writers - Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende
• American authors Toni Morrison and Alice Hoffman
• Japanese magical realist Haruki Murakami
 A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings
• Example of magical realism
• Written by Gabriel García Márquez

• ABOUT : tells the story of Pelayo and his wife, who find an old
man with wings in their courtyard after killing crabs in a
rainstorm. Neighbor informs them that the old man is an
angel. They decide to let him go, but when they return to the
courtyard at dawn the entire community has arrived to see
the angel. Wife has the idea of charging a 5 cent admission fee
for seeing the angel; they are soon rich. Later they neglect the
angel. He gets increasingly frail and sickly, and they fear that
he will die. He recovers, however, and one day Elisenda
watches him fly away, to her great relief.

• Signs of realism: combining the homely details of Pelayo and

wife’s life with fantastic elements such as a flying man and a
spider woman and fairy tale. There is a mingling of the
fantastic and ordinary in all the descriptions, including the
swarms of crabs
 MUSIC
• For middle or lower class
• Just like in music, the song is usually real and has all true information
• You can hear the light, calm melody with many musical instruments, done by whole
orchestra

Examples of music in Realism: by Camille Saint Saens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1TcqLS2fi4&list=PLVYz_coWoQYBGcE-qM4BJs5pinZaSkNXC&index=2

and by Saint-Saëns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCBDlC0N8Rc&list=PLVYz_coWoQYBGcE-qM4BJs5pinZaSkNXC&index=4
 Realistic MUSIC now
• Nowadays the orchestra is not used in a music as it was and it does not
focus on the music in backround, but on the lyrics which are strongly
realistic. Although the music is calm and chill to listen

"Forever And Always„ - "Nobody"

By: Parachute By: Bert Williams
-The song above displays This song shows realism
realism in the truth of it. in the tone and
It shows a real life event. seriousness of the song.
This song talks about how It shows the feelings and
this women is losing her emotion. This song talks
fiance and she about having no friends It
remembers when he kind of emphasizes him
proposed and what he as a poor person. This is a
said to her. It is without main part of realism.
any exaggeration of how Being in the lower class.
she feels about him
which shows realism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovy6rknFWnk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xlwpf8u4aw
 THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION

I hoped you liked my presentation. I did many researches, and I covered everything what was
requested, learned something new and even had fun with it.
Nicole Matejková 2.B