A brief overview of

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A brief overview of

• American Realism in Art and Music

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Motivations Social and Economic Unrest

• Civil War
• Population doubled between 1870 1890
• Race riots
• Industrial Revolution creates significant changes
  in cities for which people were ill-prepared
• Extreme wealth and poverty
• Less than 1 had more wealth than combined 99 in
  1890

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Results

• Realism Showed the reality of the surroundings
• Impressionism Snapshots of life
• Photojournalism Showed life of the Civil War

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Realism

• Subjects
• Working Class
• Grim urban class
• Country
• Home life
• Snapshot
• Personal, not nationalist
• Characteristics
• Depths of shadows
• Dark colors
• Rough, unfinished surfaces
• Fronted forms are clear
• Realists did NOT create realistic paintings

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Artists

• Remington
• Russell
• Eakins
• Whistler
• Moran
• Homer

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Impressionism

• Subjects
• Refined middle class
• Country
• City NOT grim necessarily
• NOT romantic whole land
• Personal NOT nationalistic
• Characteristics
• Flat, almost one dimensional, few shadows
• Bright colors
• Rough, unfinished surfaces
• Blended lines with unclear forms

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Artists

• Mary Cassatt
• John Singer Sargent
• Childe Hassam

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Photojournalism

• Subjects
• War
• Characteristics
• Sometimes posed to capture ideas and gruesomeness
• Intended to relay news of what was happening on
  front lines
• Artists
• Matthew Brady
• Jacob Riis

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Music

• John Philip Sousa
• 1854-1932
• Known as the March King
• Ranks among the most famous American composers
  and conductors
• Composed The Stars and Strips Forever, the
  official march of the US on December 25, 1896
• Played it at every concert for 25 years
• Invented the sousaphone