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American realism was a movement in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century.
William Glackens and the Ashcan School: The Emergence of Realism in American Art. New York: Crown, 1957. Homer, William Innes. Robert Henri and His Circle. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969. Hughes, Robert. American Visions: The Epic Story of Art in America. New York: Knopf, 1997. Hunter, Sam. Modern American Painting and Sculpture.
Later on in America, the term realism took on various new definitions and adaptations once the movement hit the U.S. Surrealism and magical realism developed out of the French realist movement in the 1930s, and in the 1950s new realism developed. This sub-movement considered art to exist as a thing in itself opposed to representations of the ...
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (/ ˈ eɪ k ɪ n z /; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, [1] sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
Most of early American art (from the late 18th century through the early 19th century) consists of history painting and especially portraits. As in Colonial America, many of the painters who specialized in portraits were essentially self-taught; notable among them are Joseph Badger, John Brewster Jr., and William Jennys.
Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet (1854) – a Realist painting by Gustave Courbet. Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not synonymous.
In the traditional scheme of art history, Ottonian art follows Carolingian art and precedes Romanesque art, though the transitions at both ends of the period are gradual rather than sudden. Like the former and unlike the latter, it was very largely a style restricted to a few of the small cities of the period, to important monasteries , as well ...
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931) by Grant Wood, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY. American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest.