April 26
Nineteenth Century

 

 

Joseph Mallard William Turner
1775 -1851

 

 

The Slave Ship

Joseph Mallard William Turner. The Slave Ship. 1840.
Tansey, Richard C. and Fred S. Kleine. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Vol. 2. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996. 2 vols.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps

Joseph Mallord William Turner. Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps. 1812.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps
Jacques Louis-David. Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard. 1800 -01.
Joseph Mallord William Turner. Snowstorm: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps. 1812.

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Cole
1801 - 1848

 

 

The Oxbow

Thomas Cole. The Oxbow. 1836.

 

 

"Before 1825, Americans considered nature menacing. The first thing colonial settlers did was burn or hack down vast tracts of virgin woods to make clearings for fields and villages. They admired nature only when it was tamed in plantations and gardens. After 1830, America's natural wonders became a bragging point as tides of settlers poured westward, pushing back frontiers, the wilderness became a symbol of America's unspoiled national character."

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photography

 

 

Inside a Camera Obscura
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph Nicephore Niepce. View from His Window at Le Gras. c. 1827. Heliograph.
Bajac, Quentin. The Invention of Photography. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York. 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. Still Life in Studio. 1837. Daguerreotype.
Richard G. Tansey & Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996, p. 959.

 

 

 

 

 


Le Boulevard Du Temple

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. Le Boulevard Du Temple. 1839. Daguerreotype.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Open Door

William Fox Talbot. The Open Door. 1843.
Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000.

 

 

 

 

Is it art?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait of Thomas Carlyle

Julia Margaret Cameron. Portrait of Thomas Carlyle. 1867.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nadar. Sarah Bernhardt. 1855. Photograph printed from a collodion negative.
Preble, Duane, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank. Artforms. Seventh ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander Gardner. Carnage at Antietam, September 1862. Wet-plate photograph.
Richard G. Tansey & Fred S. Kleiner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Tenth ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1996, p. 962.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Realism = term used to describe a kind of naturalism with a socialist political message
Based on the idea that ordingary people and everyday activities are worthy subjects for art
Strives to depict ordinary existence without idealism, exoticism or nostalgia
Insisted on precise imitation of visual perceptions without alteration

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gustave Courbet
1819 - 1877

 

 

Gustave Courbet. The Stone Breakers. 1849 (believed to have been destroyed during World War II). 8 1/2' X 5' 3".

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Artist's Studio

Gustave Courbet. The Painter's Studio. 1855. 12' X 19 1/2'.

 

 

 

 

Gustave Courbet's Origin of the World