UNIT 3
PHOTOREALISM
1. What was one of the reasons artists stopped focussing on realism?
It was because of the invention of the camera and these left artists to focussing on realism. In 1837, Daguerre had created an instrument that would capture the scene in front of the camera.
A chemical process the images that lens’ had been making since the 15th century could be fixed. The film that had been made was light sensitive and would imprint that had been projected from the lens.
Because of this the photographs had became more popular and artists began to lose their clients. Therefore artists had begun to question their role.
2. Who was the first artist to focus on ‘capturing emotion and light in a painting rather than capture realism’?
Joseph Mallord William Turner was one of the first to really focus on capturing emotion and light in a painting rather than capture realism. His paintings would rather have a soft glow of the light and blur for the emotion.
In this image J.M.W.Turner painted seems as if it is raining and in the background the impression of A boat with smoke coming out of its chimney. The paint is rather dark but has light shining through the clouds with an orange glow softly reflecting.
This would seem as an overcast weather changing the tone and atmosphere to a rather intense. I find this painting to be interesting because in the change of tone to give a different perspective.
3. What movement was trying to ‘capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction’
Impressionists would try and capture the feeling of the or the experience rather the being accurate and would a hint of the form and the viewer would try an interoperate the forms.
Monet had painted the impression of a garden with very bright and vibrant almost if it was psychedelic image playing complementary colours, playing on the eyes. I do find the colour choice to be good as you would find bright colours in a flower garden.
4. What did Cezanne say that everything can be reduced to?
Cezanne said that “Everything in nature is based on the sphere, cone, and cylinder.” He meant that everything can be broken down into different basic shapes.
In his painting you’ll you will see how he had broken up the painting in to different shapes to simplify what is been shown. The colours being used is a warm but seems as if it’s a happy, safe and warm environment while looking over to the sea.
5.Cubism is meant to enable you to see multiple viewpoints at once. Find a Cubist image by Picasso and comment on whether this seems true.
Yes and no, his painting seems flat but the straight lines on his painting and different shapes and shades to make it seem as ifs 3D but would give the illusion of the of being seen of many angles.
6. What did Photorealism develop in response to?
Photorealism was developed after the camera in a sense where artists would take a photograph and then paint or draw that had shown on the image. The artist would paint to a much bigger scale so that they could add as much detail to make more realistic that it would match with the original photograph.
This is portrait of Robert Williams done by Heather Rooney as tribute to his passing away. The portrait is done by pencil and she captured all the likeness of his face to the shadows on his face and light reflecting off.
This painting is finger paint and looks very detailed. The painting looks as its ice floating adrift the sea.
This painting is a interesting piece and hyper realistic from the individual skin pores and eye lashes. The rough make up makes it appealing and allows for more detail for the skin texture.
DID THE CAMERA KILL ART?
This question could be answered either a yes or and no. The camera in the modern day is rather considered to be used in another art form known as Photography.
Before the actual camera was invented, artists used to focus on realism. They would try and capture the exact likeness of the subject they are painting or drawing. Artists would have been employed by the rich and other organisation such as churches and so on, to paint realistic portraits or sceneries.
In 1837 the invention of the camera came along created by Daguerre using optical instruments, a chemical process that had been making since the 15th century used with len’s.
At that time it seems that the camera became more popular and artists began to lose their clients, artists started to question their role. They were forced to change their entire perception of art. Impressionism came along as the first movement where artists would focus more on capturing light, essences and emotion, one of the first artists to implement into his style was Joseph Mallord William Turner. Tuner specialised mostly in landscapes paintings. He is commonly known as “the painter of light”. Turner’s paintings would rather focus on natural catastrophes, ships at sea and natural elements such as fog, rain, storms and sunlight.
The Staffa fingal`s Cave gave the impression of a boat adrift of the sea, while the light of the sunset would reflect a soft orange glow on the clouds. The darker tone changes the emotion towards the painting and making in more interesting.
Cubism is rather an interesting style that had been developed and most influential art movement of the 20th century after the invention of the camera. Cubism was an idea where we would observe an object from many different angles. These paintings would often have collage like appearance and reassembled in an abstracted form. The movement Cubism was pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque . Violin and Grapes is rather and interesting painting. You can see how the violin is broking up and painted in different angles almost as if as a puzzle and the grapes appear to resemble bubbles as something been washed.
Abstract expressionism is a development of abstract art which originated in New York in the 1940s and 1950s and aimed at subjective emotional expression with particular emphasis on the spontaneous creative act. Leading figure were Jackson Pollock. At the time his paintings considered to be different and revolutionary, however removed the ‘Picture Plane’ completely, there is no sense of foreground or background. It is all over the composition and there is no sense of form. It made it completely abstract.
Photorealism is a painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. This was a new art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The painting would often enormous to add a vast amount of detail and playing around with depth of feel to give life to the painting.
Art has evolved in many different ways over the years after the invention of the camera. Do I think the camera killed art? It may have killed a specific art style, but in my opinion art will not die out, there are always other alternatives and new innovative ideas. Art is like energy, energy cannot die only transferred to other form.
Royal Academy of Arts
The art work is grate and massive and looked like iron bar laid out straight but had the resemblance of a sound wave or a earthquake being measured like a seismograph. once in the room you could almost feel the weight of all the iron bars. What I think he was trying to show or tell us some message in his own way which would make you think about it more in a meaningful way. The bars came from school buildings that were poorly constructed and after the earthquake he find out more and collected each bar off each child that died in the earthquake.