... art world. "When Pop art was recognized as a shared phenomenon, there was hesitation as to what to call it- . "Some suggested New Realism based on an analogy between French and American movements- promoted by Pierre Restany. Others suggested Anti-Sensibility Painting but people discredited this name because it "jumped ... closer to the end of the 1960's, a strange occurrence began to happen in the art world. A new popular form of art was photo-realism. Photo-realism's roots grew out of Pop art by taking the images seen from the everyday world. Artists like Richard Estes painted scenes o...

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... observes that he wrote to John Fisher in 1821 "I should paint my own places best", "painting is but another word for feeling". Constable painted with a bright, clear atmosphere and straightforward realism capturing the countryside before the industrial revolution creating images that are aesthetically pleasing, with a nostalgic and wistful air to them. Human figures blend in with the natural background, the whole ... themes. The Hay Wain is also significant because Constable does not show the civil unrest of the farming working class or the development of the industrial revolution. Cons...

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... held up her robes. The sculpture is softly modeled, light and shadow softly play on the surface. Old Market Woman 115 152 2C BC Shows the hellenistic qualities of extreme realism and interest in old age. She is poor, crippled with infirmities, and returning from the market with provisions. Rhodes Sculptors, Laocoön and His Sons 115 153 1st C Story of ... : a roof constructed with arches Barrel vault: an arch extended in space Groin vault: two barrel vaults that intersect at right angles Veristic: sculptures from the Roman Republic characterized by extreme realism of facial features EARL...

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... Word. That is, they became the one thing any viewer of any art was to know before they could appreciate the piece. One had to step over the line of realism and rationality and into the odd world the critics and artists had created to be able to understand the art finally. They had to know the "Painted Word". And so ... ...

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... much more interwoven? Notably, with the advent of photography, artist painters ceased to value the exactness of reproducing a visual image, for they could no longer compete with the clarity and "realism- of photographs. Cubism and other abstract techniques came to be valued as the artist painter's true vision of the world, and the uniqueness of the artist painter's visual production came ... ...

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