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Although modern sculpture and architecture are reckoned to have emerged at the end of the 19th century, the beginnings of modern painting can be located earlier. [15] Francisco Goya is considered by many as the Father of Modern Painting without being a Modernist himself, a fact of art history that later painters associated with Modernism as a ...
The 1800s in Art witnessed the rise of various other movements, each contributing to the diversity and richness of artistic expression during this transformative century. From the realism movement's depiction of reality to the innovative techniques of impressionism and the daring explorations of Post-Impressionism , the art world of the 19th ...
Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the early 19th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. Instead, it sought to portray real and typical contemporary people and situations with truth and accuracy.
Italian Renaissance – late 13th century – c. 1600 – late 15th century ... Most modern art movements were international in scope. Impressionism – 1860 ...
Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th century, underpinned by the logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality (figurative art). By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new style which would encompass the fundamental changes taking place in ...
Wilhelm Brücke (1800–1874) Alexander Bruckmann (1806–1852) Ferdinand Brütt (1849–1936) Christoph Brüx (born 1965) Lothar-Günther Buchheim (1918–2007) Carl Buchheister (1890–1964) Erich Buchholz (1891–1972) Ludwig Buchhorn (1770–1856) Elisabeth Büchsel (1867–1957) Heinz Budweg (born 1940) Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952 ...
In Italy Francesco Hayez (1791–1882) was the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan. His long, prolific and extremely successful career saw him begin as a Neoclassical painter, pass right through the Romantic period, and emerge at the other end as a sentimental painter of young women.
The arts of cultures other than the European had become accessible and showed alternative ways of describing visual experience to the artist. By the end of the 19th century, many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art that encompassed the fundamental changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy.