ARH 156 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: The Horse Fair, The Stone Breakers, Gustave Courbet
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Realism: empiricism, the basis of knowledge is observation and direct experience, positivism, scientific laws governed the environment and human activity could be revealed through careful recording and analysis of observable data. France: gustave courbet, the stone breakers, 1849, conveyed the dreary and dismal nature of menial labor in mid- 19th-century france: burial at ornans, 1849, horrified critics because of the ordinary nature of the subject and. (cid:862)art (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges o(cid:374)ly through stro(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)vi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, (cid:272)o(cid:374)vi(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s stro(cid:374)g e(cid:374)ough to (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge so(cid:272)iety at the sa(cid:373)e ti(cid:373)e(cid:863: theophile thore. Delacroix was the painter who progressive critics looked for a fulfilment of revolutionary ideas of the 1848 uprising. The term avant-garde was first used to designate radical or advanced activity in both artistic and social realms. An example is gustave courbet and his radical realism. It is not until after the 1848 revolution that the advanced social ideas of the mid 19th century are given expression in appropriately advanced form.
