The Stone Breakers Analysis

After reading it, Mr. Notkins’ Artist Statement really opens your eyes as to what the piece is trying to convey and you change the way you thought the piece was assembled. The piece is much more obvious than other famous paintings and Notkins doesn’t seem to care about that. After reading the artist's statement my views and thoughts

People were killed but there was one specific person who came to mine and it was Cripus Attucks, The colonist didn't include Crispus Attucks in the painting he was a runaway slave who had died giving up his life for colonial liberty, For the likes of Samuel Adams, the outcome could not have been more beneficial. The colonist didn't do anything about this. I think they didn't put him in the painting because it made the colonist look bad, which it was even worse because he was on the british painting. "A general attack was made on the men by a great number of heavy clubs and snowballs being thrown at them, by which all our lives were in imminent danger."

Winslow Homer is one of the greatest American painters of the nineteenth century. He was born in Boston, but he was raised in rural Cambridge. He had traveled a lot in his life. However, his subject was changing as he traveled. He started painting about the Civil War from 1863 and he had motivation to doing it when two of his Civil War painting was presented at the Exposition Universelle in late 1866.

During the trend, many artists rose including Church with the landscape paintings. Everyone was urbanizing and it was rare to find such a serene place like Catskill, New York. Church made it happen when he attended art school while being a student of Thomas Cole, who was also an emerged artist from the 1800s. This painting is oil on canvas and it was painted by the Hudson River.

His visual representations of French-Canadian life permit one to take a stroll back in time to nostalgically remember the history and culture of the region. Employing the style of realism, Hébert painted the daily experiences of the common man. Predecessors painted royalty, but his art served as a platform for displaying reality, including the difficulty of manual labor, pollution caused by the Industrial Revolution, and

The great American painter during the revolutionary period, John Trumbull, created a realistic conclusion to a battle in his masterpiece, The Capture of the Hessians at Trenton, December 26, 1776. The incredible mixture between art and apparent reality stands out in the work and makes it a treat for the eyes. By clearly showing the stark contrast between the winners and losers of the battle, Trumbull adds reality to his art. As a result, viewers can safely infer that the celebrating army on the right represents the Americans. Furthermore, artistic and realistic qualities both appear in the background and foreground.

Joseph Griffith has created quite a strange painting if you only focus on the surface. When you only look at the surface of The Surrender painting you may think to yourself, “How in the world does any of this go together?” It may be a little confusing at first to try to link Robocop, Waldo and George Washington riding a giant triceratops together when you just focus on the surface material. However, this painting has a deeper meaning. Joseph Griffith is trying to make a statement through his painting The Surrender by linking all of these random components together with a hidden meaning.

Realism If the Renaissance did not accurately portray real life, then Realism certainly did. Realist artists derived their inspiration from real life. However, it was not the real lives of the wealthy and well-to-do families but the lives of real, middle to low class people that these artists cared to paint. Poorer people were not portrayed as miserable but as dignified, respectable people with as much dignity as the wealthy.

Pudd'nhead Wilson features a lot of realism in that the book does seem like it corresponds with the time period and different cultures. This novel illustrates realism in that it shows the differences in language between cultures, it shows the societal views of the time, and it shows the education of the time. First, realism is illustrated in the differences in language and slang between the characters in the novel. Roxy at one point says, "No, dolling mammy ain't gwine to treat you so. De angels is gwine to 'mire you jist as much as dey does yo' mammy.

The term realism is defined as the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly. Throughout this semester, realism was seen within two classics, Singin In The Rain and All That Heaven Allow, and both have it’s similarities and differences. Stanley Donon and Gene Kelley’s Singin

His production of art almost eerily similar to how it reflects his life. From a slow beginning, figuring out his path in life, to jumping into being an artist and having it be the only thing he did, the only other thing on his mind being pain and resentment fed into his creations. All of his feelings that he’s accumulated suddenly began to have an outlet. He created hundreds and hundreds of paintings of beautiful rooms, flowers, scenery, and portraits fueled by his depression and imagination. He turned something miserable into something beautiful.

In the painting, Warren is shown to dramatically descend into the arms of another soldier. Americans and British, the two main sides, are shown to be in hysteria. Among these figures, some key participants are William Howe, Henry Clinton, and William Prescott (St. Germain). Prescott also supposedly ordered American soldiers not to fire until “you see the whites of their eyes”. Two African American soldiers are also shown on the battlefield, representing the importance of black soldiers during the war.

The two concepts, idealism and realism merge together to form the concept of idealistic-realism. Idealism in art, is the poetization and spirituatualzation of a theme, belief and ethos, realism on the other hand is the act of recreating any scene, object or action in the form art. The concept of idealism at a deeper glance is the comprehension of the idea or ideal created by the artist, and was the foundation of all great Greek and Renaissance art. Augustus of Prime Porta is a great example of the peaceful co-existence of idealism and realism, since the sculpture is ideal and conceptual in its composition and realistic in its execution. The marble statue of Augustus at Prima Porta was discovered in the villa of Livia in Prima Porta and was constructed to celebrate the Roman triumph over the Parthians in 20 B.C.

As Bela Lugosi once said, “People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties…they live like ants”. The painting Over London by Rail, by Gustave Dore portrays a side of the Industrial Revolution that was disregarded by many during the time. The upper class often neglected the harsh working conditions in which most of the people lived in. This mechanism of change that the revolution had become drastically transformed people’s traditional lives that were once in a close to perfect harmony with nature. The fast moving industrialization of the world made individuality negligible as huge amounts of goods were made and thousands were made to work for the machines.

Is idea of realism was also related to metaphysics. This theory was that there are objects that exist separate to the world that the person perceives. His understanding was that every thing had a natural purpose (matter) and a goal that it’s striving to (form). In the case of law, Justice (the form) is used to transform laws (matter) into their real purpose to achieve justice. He distinguished between natural justice (the form) and conventional justice (human laws – the matter).