These stages are categorized into Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Surrealism. Realism represents figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life, and is generally restricted to a movement that began in the mid-19th century in reaction to the highly subjective approach of romanticism. Realism is concerned directly with what is absorbed by the senses. ... Eakins" The Gross Clinic combined sharp realism- a depiction of an operation in progress with psychological acuity in the portrayal of the surgeon Doctor Gross is reali...

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The movement used populist orientation and affirmed representational realism as the preferred form of painting the woodcut prints (Tang 2008, p. 179). ... As a result, many adopted representational realism as their primary visual language. ...

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There is a balance in paintings between realism and symbolism4 which creates the form of a likeness rather than a complete representation. ... Plastic realism is the term Bazin uses to describe this likeness or this imitation of real life, created to endure time. ... Bazin's ideas of time in cinema are reflected in his analysis of the style of films known as Italian Neo realism. ...

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It finds its identity by differentiating itself from what it is not; for example, not Realism, its predecessor, which is characterized by its attempt objectively to offer up a mirror to the world. ... The symbolist poet is the archetypal figure in modernism; it's equally distant from realism and expressionism. ...

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Constable painted with a bright, clear atmosphere and straightforward realism capturing the countryside before the industrial revolution creating images that are aesthetically pleasing, with a nostalgic and wistful air to them. ... Constable aims for realism and accuracy, and by doing so the theme of unity between man and nature is portrayed. ...

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Andy Warhol, the American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and film maker was born in Pittsburgh on August 6, 1928, shortly afterwards settling in New York. The only son of immigrant, Czech parents, Andy finished high school and went on to the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, graduating in 1949 with hopes of becoming an art teacher in the public schools. While in Pittsburgh, he worked for a department store arranging window displays, and often was asked to simply look for ideas in fashion magazines . While recognizing the job as a waste of time, he recalls later that the fashio...

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Whether it be writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, or photographers, artists all over the world have striven to show people their views of the world, of people, and even of the universe itself. Throughout history the creative urge of man to present to fellow men a different perspective or repre...

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