Lecture 18: Realism: U.S. & France, & in Photography

Announcement: exam Monday

Slide List

Portraiture:
- Reynolds, Lady Bunbury , 1765/ Copley, Paul Revere, 1770.
- Stuart, "Lansdowne" Washington, 1795.
- Unknown: Woodville, The Sailor's Wedding, 1852/ Hogarth, Marriage a la Mode, 1743.
- Turner The Slave Ship, 1840.
- Unknown, Slave Market in U.S., c. 1850.
Landscape: What is Realism in Landscape?
- Constable, Leaping Horse, 1824-25/Church, Niagara Falls, 1857.
- Bierstadt, Sierra Nevada, 1868/Lane, Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, 1850.
Photography: its implications and uses
- Daguerre, Street Scene, Paris, 1839/Talbot, The Open Door, 1843.
- Anonymous: Frederick Douglas, 1849/Self-Portrait: Daguerreotypist
- Anonymous: Unknown Confederate Soldier
- 2 Landscapes: O'Sullivan, Near Carson, Nevada, 1867/ Adams, Yosemite Falls, 1940.
- French - nude
Absorption with History
- United States:
  - Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware , 1851/Leutze, Westward Ho, 1863.
  - Civil War: O'Sullivan, Confederate Dead, 1863./Winslow Homer,
    Prisoners from the Front, 1866.
Who is the audience for Painting? To what uses shall we put realism?
- France: Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849./details: 1 & 2.
- U.S: Homer Long Brance, N.J., 1869/Detail
- Eakins: Gross Clinic, 1875/Details 1, 2, 3 & 4.
Who is the "modern" artist, the one who paints "modern life"?
- Courbet, The Studio of the Artist + detail, 1855 (An Allegory of the Artist").
- Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656.