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Faa Human Resource
HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
HAMPTON, VIRGINIA
HUMANITIES PROGRAM
Exploring Realism, and Romanticism
A
SHORT PAPER
PRESENTED TO
MR. OMPOFO & MR. LYONS
FOR
HUMANITIES 202-05
ENDURING HUMAN VALUES AND CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
April 15, 2000
Realism and Romanticism
Romanticism dominated the art and culture of the West until almost the last decade of the nineteenth century. The Realist point of view began to form as early as the 1850s. As a start, realism called for an objective and unidealized assessment of everyday life. The word realism is often used in both philosophy and the arts, though in each field the meaning is quite different. In philosophy realism had a different meaning in the ancient world than it does in its modern application. Realism in the arts refers to accurate and detailed depictions of life and its problems whether in painting literature, drama, or film. Realism was first proposed in France in the middle of the nineteenth century. There are varying points of view on the uses of realism. Some painters and writers believed that realist art should be accurate and detached. Others insist that the purpose of realism is to illustrate the problems of the underprivileged and to promote social change.
The first painter to claim himself as a realist painter was Gustave Courbet. In his opinion painting was an art of the visible and concrete. In the United States, the 19th and 20th realist painters were William Harnett, John Peto, Thomas Eakins, Robert Henri, William Glackens, and many more.
Among the leading ancient...
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