Realism mid1800s:

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Realism (mid-1800s)

• an attempt to describe human behavior and
  surroundings or to represent figures and objects
  exactly as they act or appear in life

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Courbet The Sleeping Spinner1853
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Millet, The Walk to Work1851
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In Literature

• Gustave Flaubert
• Madame Bovary (1857)
• Guy de Maupassant
• The Necklace

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Impressionism (1874-1886)

• a movement in painting that originated in France
  in the late 19th century
• used broken brushstrokes of bright, often unmixed
  colors. This practice produced loose or densely
  textured surfaces rather than the carefully
  blended colors and smooth surfaces favored by
  most artists of the time

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Monet Impression, Sunrise 1872
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Wheat Stacks, end of summer
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Manet Bar at the Folies Bergeres 1881
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Post-Impressionism

• movement in late-19th-century French painting
  that emphasized the artists personal response to
  a subject.
• postimpressionists focused on emotional or
  spiritual meanings that the subject might convey

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Paul Cezanne The Card Players1892
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Paul Signac The Papal Palace at Avignon1909
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Expressionism

• an artistic movement that flourished between 1905
  and 1925
• sought to represent feelings and moods rather
  than objective reality, often distorting color
  and form.

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Henri MatisseGreen Stripe (Madame Matisse)1905
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Edward Munch The Dead Mother1900