... damaged significantly during the war. However, its most distinct characteristic was the use of non-professional actors who relied greatly on improvisation. The idea was to create a greater sense of realism through the use of real people rather than all experienced actors. Additionally, the use of everyday conversational speech as opposed to rhetorical or literary dialogue was employed to give it ... an authentic feel. In addition to these characteristic, Italian Neo-realism's narrative elements were also signature to its movement. It avoided neatly plotted stories in favor of loose, epi...

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... damaged significantly during the war. However, its most distinct characteristic was the use of non-professional actors who relied greatly on improvisation. The idea was to create a greater sense of realism through the use of real people rather than all experienced actors. Additionally, the use of everyday conversational speech as opposed to rhetorical or literary dialogue was employed to give it ... an authentic feel. In addition to these characteristic, Italian Neo-realism's narrative elements were also signature to its movement. It avoided neatly plotted stories in favor of loose, epi...

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"About 500 years ago modern political thinking began, It's enticing surface was the idea of, 'realism.' Its ruthless center was the idea that with a worthwhile end, one could justify any mean. Its spokesman was Nicolo Machiavelli," (Zinn). Yes, Machiavelli wanted to serve the people. However ... ...

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... religion that was popularly depicted through many of the paintings. For instance, Florentine Mosaccio, a vital figure in the early Renaissance art, portrayed society's belief of religion through the style of realism and perspective in his famous works such as the Tribute Money and Madonna and Child with Saints that demonstrated ideas of simplicity, unity, and believability. Another Italian artist, Giotto, used ... the idea of realism in which a face was given a characteristics and color. Thus, his paintings like the Dance of St. Francis indicated a concern for naturalism, a popular idea ...

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... class differences in Italy, as depicted in the scene on the motorcycle in his film, Mamma Roma . This occurrs only after he spends most of the film describing, with great realism, the economic distinctions in Rome's sad underworld. Although filmed in the 1960's, Pasolini seems to portray an authentic setting ripe with characters whose lives have been devastated, a mirror of the ... , the obsequious police chief supporing the Nazis, and the Italian masses, including the working class and the church, determined to survive the German oppression. He describes the various groups using realism...

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... Hebrew idea of David and Goliath. "The sculpture of Donatello influenced that of Florence and northern Italy in the 15th century. It was also a major stimulus on the development of realism in Italian painting, notably in the work of the great Paduan artist Andrea Mantegna. Donatello, who died on December 13, 1466, had many pupils, the most important of whom was ... ...

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... way that artists painted. However these innovations took place in two different geographic regions and in two very different ways. In the North artists used oil and strived for a intense realism. In Italy, a new style emerged called Mannerism. Italian artist experimented with spatial sense and proportions in order to express the actions in the painting more beautifully. One artist in Italy ... ...

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"The subject of neo-realism film is the world; not the story or narrative. It contains no preconceived thesis, because ideas are born in the film from the subject." This was said by one of the founding fathers of the cinematic Neorealistic movement, Roberto Rossellini. Neorealism was a movemen...

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... was how he loved to relax. His most admired one by others would most definitely be "Mona Lisa." His work continues to spark people today because of his freshness and realism that he expressed in his many paintings before he died on May 2nd, of 1519....

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... technical change in paintig in 1909-1915 are Giacomo Balla, Luigi Russolo and Carlo Cara. Divisionism united the painters and the link between impressionisism, neo-impressionism, symbolist imagery and social Realism. However each artists individually interprets the theories in "The Technical Manofesto". Balla's paintings are more concerned with "optical phemona", Carra with the"Physicality of movement" and Boccioni with "Philosophy of ... ...

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... in the human body. They tended not to worry on being naturalistic. Their work depended simply on quality. When the Renaissance came about, artists now became more characteristically inclined with realism. Before the Renaissance, style had aimed for a rich, glowing surface, with elaborate linear designs. Soon after, figures were then being portrayed and painted with a sense of depth, their volume represented ... ...

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... , literature, and discoveries in science. The Renaissance in Italy started gradually, its beginnings being apparent even in Giotto's work, a century before Masaccio's works. The quest for scientific precision and greater realism grew, with the superb balance of harmony of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo, among others. ...

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... that changed. Artists then included an emphasis on human beings and the environment, which shown that this is indication of changes in their culture at the time. Renaissance individualism and realism found their greatest and most lasting representation in the visual arts (Walker 77). There were many great artists spread across the time of the Renaissance. Some of them were leading ... ...

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... of nationalism. Patriotism spread throughout the countries of Europe. People took pride in their nations, and their rulers used this pride to build their empire. They told artists to use realism mixed with emotional impact to persuade the people to support their rulers. II. Other Arts (Poets/artists) Baroque art used complex style to create emotions and tension that appealed to ... ...

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... and constructed various portraits and sculptures that started the beginning of the spread of religion in Italian art. Giotto was a Florentine painter who led the way in his use of realism in his works. Although his portraits mirrored reality, one of his more famous works, The Lamentation Over Christ, expresses religious doctrine as well. In the Renaissance, religion was a factor of ... ...

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... end of the Mid-Ages. Arts had become independent forms. The religious themes were no longer the only main subject of arts. The main theme of arts in Renaissance was realism, besides humanism. The subjects now included individuals in forms of statues, portraits, or a picture which captured the expression of one, also the quality of the arts had improved to a lifelike ... ...

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... the first half of the sixteenth century. This is sometimes considered to include the late Gothic Dutch paintings of the fifteenth century, because of its interest in certain aspects of realism. A fine example of this would be Jan van Eyck's, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, see fig 6. In spite of van Eyck's realistic detail, the paining has a Gothic quality in its ... ...

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... one of the first to scientifically approach understanding how we see our world, and how it works. Also during the Renaissance, artists began to paint with the goal of greater realism. Da Vinci's study of nature enabled him to do that, which added special liveliness to his pictures. Finally Da Vinci personified the last ideal of the Renaissance, being secularism. In ... ...

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... of religious subjects, trying to paint them realistically. One of Caravaggio's earliest commissioned works called for three large paintings depicting scenes from the life of St. Matthew. Caravaggio used a dramatic realism for the paintings that resulted in public astonishment and was even considered offensive. This reaction marked a change in the artist's style and he then devoted himself to the painting of ... ...

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