... later years of our history we have come to see art progress in many stages. These stages surround modern art. These stages are categorized into Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Surrealism. Realism represents figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life, and is generally restricted to a movement that began in the mid-19th century ... in reaction to the highly subjective approach of romanticism. Realism is concerned directly with what is absorbed by the senses. American realist paintings include the honest, matter-of...

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... and express their personal thoughts. Most writers during this century expressed stories based on personal experiences during wars and periods of cultural changes. Modernism, science fiction, and magical realism are three important themes of advanced literature that evolved duringthe twentieth century. Modernism flourished mainly between the end of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. In general, ... the unconscious mind.With this act, magic realists became more aware of the intellectual diversity of world literature and added in other historical events from different coun...

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... positions and how they were contracted a! s if the figure was in motion. The details of the veins and the muscle strains help bring out the realism of the figures. Matisse's figure also seems like it is in motion like Rodin's. Looking at the four figures, the woman almost seems like she is ... the wrinkles in the skin cause by movement as his figure struggles to free itself from the wall of stone. This also gives his figures more realism. Both Matisse's and Rodin's figures are larger than life like scale. But both of these artists were really not concerned with proportion. They were .....

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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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... and other elements such as strings, roses, and religious medals in her paintings. She shows a tremendous amount of detail to shadows and light. Her work is best described as "poetic realism."" Borrase began her teaching career at Humbolt High School in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1981 when she graduated from the University of Coast Rica with a BA in Fine Art ... ...

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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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... emphasis was not on man anymore. Their art was made to glorify God. The fifteenth century marked the arrival of the Renaissance. Artists have finally recaptured the amazing detail and realism that the Greeks and Romans perfected. Artists pushed the limits with new exciting mediums and bright colors. Filippo Brunelleschi, allowed artists to determine the relative size of each figure by ... ...

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?More often than not the abstract artists is not imitating nature or pursuing realism, but concerned with the spiritual or emotional state of colour and form, line and texture, balance and harmony, and will attempt to engage the viewer in a way that narrative, realistic ... ...

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... . Figures were now completely free standing where the Archaic figures limbs were bound in some way to their body. Details such as veins were carefully observed. Lastly because of the realism in figure form that was achieved, sculptors were now able to carve body hair in the appropriate places more accurately. It still had a stylized feeling to it, however, in some ... ...

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... of Van Gogh's works painted in 1887 in Paris, and Les Demoiselles d"Avignon painted by Picasso are two paintings that although similar are different in that Van Gogh's has more realism and Picassos's is cubist in style. Van Gogh tries to change the image of women in those days by painting them smoking and drinking beer. His painting challenged the fact ... ...

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... . Figures were now completely free standing where the Archaic figures limbs were bound in some way to their body. Details such as veins were carefully observed. Lastly because of the realism in figure form that was achieved, sculptors were now able to carve body hair in the appropriate places more accurately. It still had a stylized feeling to it, however, in some ... ...

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... emphasis was not on man anymore. Their art was made to glorify God. The fifteenth century marked the arrival of the Renaissance. Artists have finally recaptured the amazing detail and realism that the Greeks and Romans perfected. Artists pushed the limits with new exciting mediums and bright colors. Filippo Brunelleschi, allowed artists to determine the relative size of each figure by ... ...

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... his influence on generations of American illustrators was very large. Rockwell worked with artists such as Howard Pyle and N.C. Wyeth, Rockwell set the standard for commercial artists who used narrative realism to illustrate books, magazines, and advertisements from the 1920s to the 1950s. A seminal figure in the evolution of American illustration, his work spawned a shift by the next generation of illustrators ... ...

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... ideal body figure for future artworks. Due to Leonardo's remarkable illustrations, European artists began to study the model of nature more closely and to paint with the goal of great realism. They learned to create lifelike people and animals, and they became skilled at creating the illusion of depth and distance on flat walls and canvases by using the techniques of ... ...

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... painting and the other people in the painting to show the sun was behind them because of where there shadows were in the painting, this technique gave the painting more realism. In addition this painting represents the renaissance by the use of bright colors in which was used to express the mood of the painting which was exciting and thoughtful. It ... ...

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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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... . Figures in the Miraculous Draft of Fishes, School of Athens, and even in the Sistine Chapel display idealization in their figure's bodies. Giorgione's work, however, has more of a sense of realism visible in the lack of extruding musculature and realistic positioning within the natural environment. Generally, figures in Giorgione's work are less detailed, created with much looser brush strokes and less ... ...

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"Zen made a huge influence in developing realism in the arts period" (Noma 207). It turned focus onto a much deeper level. Zen Buddhism's impact on Japanese culture is clearly shown in its visual art work, architecture, and interior ... ...

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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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... 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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