ART 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Mary Cassatt, Mals, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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Shakespeare"s hamlet: hamlet"s lover/fiance ophelia goes mad and brings a bunch of sym- bolic flowers together in a bouquet. She then rushes out to the river and drowns. Modern interpretation of realism is that it is extreme clarity of detail; this was not the original intention. Studied an actual landscape and a friend in a bathtub. French realists would have thought it too literary and beautiful. Came together with friends to create a movement that craftsmen are artists. In 1861, founded kelmscott press dedicated to publishing beautifully illustrated books. William morris, the woodpecker tapestry and grail tapestry: Believed medieval was a great time for craftsmen. Truth to materials; not frilly or showy. Objects should be simple and look like what they"re made of (ex: don"t paint wood gold for example) Was not immediately embraced as an art form; objective and representing the exact real world. Invented simultaneously in both france and england.
