{"id":2458,"date":"2024-04-18T16:49:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2024-04-18T16:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T16:49:03","slug":"intro-to-western-art-4-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/18\/intro-to-western-art-4-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Western Art 4\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Class today finished with looking at photography and Realism. In the beginning stages of photography, it took multiple hours (8) to take an image. Parisians loved photos as the real-life version of still life paintings. The photo <em>Harvest of Death<\/em> showed the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg in America, illustrating for many people the documentary power of photos. It showed real people and real death, evoking emotions nationwide as the photo was exhibited. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transitioning to Impressionism, \u00c9douard Manet was known as the hinge between Realism and Impressionism. He painted images of intelligent businessmen strolling to take in contemporary life, the beginning of impression values. His painting <em>Luncheon on the Grass<\/em> was a statement supporting modern art as it depicted irregular brushwork and had no sense of depth and real proportions. A modern version of former paintings by Titian and Giorgione, the focus was on the foreground and the modern life of prostitutes, painted again in <em>Olympia. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Claude Monet is one of the most famous artists of the Impressionist era. Embodying the ideals the light is fundamental and visible brushwork to capture the transiency of modern life, the name impression comes from his work. <em>Impression, Sunrise<\/em> was originally mocked by the public for its lack of form. But utilizing divided brushwork where each stroke corresponds to a different color, the eye blends the colors together to create the impression of a scene. His series of Haystacks was a study of a subject under different variables (time of day, season) to see how color changes as a function of light. The impression of scenes gives a mysterious but also calm and peaceful sentiment to each painting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class today finished with looking at photography and Realism. In the beginning stages of photography, it took multiple hours (8) to take an image. Parisians loved photos as the real-life version of still life paintings. The photo Harvest of Death showed the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg in America, illustrating for many people the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}