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Artistic expression underwent a marked change in the 19th century due to the rise of a new bourgeois patronage and a greater international awareness of pictorial ideas. The concept of realism was also conceived and perfected during the 19th century, opening the door to a plethora of varying subject matter. In particular genre scenes, elegant women and children, landscapes, and still life's were completed with extreme accuracy and high level of finish.
The term ‘academic art’ refers to the style of artwork made by artists who were trained at one of the official art academies in Europe, such as the École des Beaux-arts in Paris, the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. At these academies, students followed a rigid curriculum based on drawing, verisimilitude, or the replication of nature, and the selection of morally-edifying subject matter. Academic artwork displayed the highest technical skills in drawing and painting and was characterized by a flawless, illusionistic finish.
By the nineteenth century, the official academies held annual highly-competitive, juried exhibitions known as salons. The juries selected artworks to exhibit that followed the tenets of the academic curriculum, including: fine draftsmanship, truth-to-nature, knowledge of historical and religious subject matter, and an illusionistic glossy finish. An artist’s career was made or broken on whether the jury selected one’s artwork, where it was hung on the wall, and whether or not it garnered any critical or popular notice.
Eventually artists of the late nineteenth century began to push back against the strict criteria that dictated a jury’s selections, as well as against the rigid and outdated strictures of the academic curriculum. Artists wanted to use newly available materials, paint out-of-doors, choose contemporary subjects, and explore their own artistic visions. Beginning with the first exhibition of the Impressionists in 1874, followed by the emergence of spin-off, non-juried salons, such as the Indépendants in 1884, the Nationale des Beaux-arts in 1890, and the Automne in 1903, the academies and juries lost their monopoly over what constituted acceptable and official artwork, and modernism in the visual arts was born.
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The now famous art movement founded in the 19th- century Paris known as French Impressionism truly represents the genesis of modern art. At few points in the history of western art has there existed such a maelstrom of artistic revolutions as during this period. It all began in 1874 with a group of young painters who organized the first of eight exhibitions after being rejected by the official Paris Salon for not adhering to the fundamental standards of the Academy. The pioneers of Impressionism who banded together to organize these important exhibits included Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Armand Guillaumin and Paul Cézanne. Although they exhibited work together for just twelve years, from 1874 to 1886, many painters continued to work in an Impressionist mode for another thirty years, as in the case of Monet, the father of Impressionism, who worked in the Impressionist style until his death in 1926. The stylistic period following the last official Impressionist show is often described as Post-Impressionism, roughly 1886-1910, during which time Impressionism continued while additional artistic philosophies were developing.
The term Post-Impressionism is not useful in describing a distinct stylistic change from Impressionist painting, but rather a general expression for the gradual evolution of modern art that occurred during and after the Impressionist movement. While art historians attempt to clearly define artistic movements by classifying them within definitive years, in reality this is impossible to do. Many schools of painting overlapped and similarly most painters dabbled in a multitude of painting styles, especially during this transitory late-19th century. These schools are all loosely lumped together, for lack of a more definitive term, under the heading of a Post-Impressionism. This is a misnomer, however, because it merely indicates a particular time period.
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French Impressionism had far reaching effects both concurrently and subsequently in many countries worldwide. Americans, Belgians, Dutch, Italians and others took and adapted the plein-air techniques, depictions of modern day life and colorful brushwork, each country developing its own interpretation.
The artistic revolutionaries of the late-19th century were viewed at the time as radicals for breaking away from traditional art. While Impressionism transformed many artists and critics and offered the public a refreshing, new view of the world, there were those who still favored the work of the Academics who continued to dominate the Paris Salon. mid-19th century academic masters like Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier and Joseph Ingres had always represented “accepted” art, and painters like William Bougereau continued that tradition throughout Impressionist and Post-Impressionist period. The French academies and official Salon embodied the classical and traditional teaching institutions of the period. Membership was by invitation and artists had to adhere to strict rigid requirements for entry and acceptance.
Many artists found these requirements too restrictive and wanted the Salon to accept their submissions even if they strayed stylistically from academic teaching. When a record number of artists over seven hundred, were refused fro the Salon, their voices were heard by the state. Napoleon III set up the Salon des Refusés in 1863 as a venue for their work. Though many of the exhibitors at the Salon des Refusés were ridiculed, its existence was of monumental consequence to the development of modern art and it proved to undermine the importance of the official Salon, leading to the creation of other subsequent exhibition venues for the visionary artists of the late-19th century.
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Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries that was already well underway in the 20th century. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organising principle, ideology, or "-ism". Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality.
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At Guarisco Gallery we have a very eclectic sculpture collection. Our sculptures span the realms of mythology, realism, modern and contemporary. Most sculptures in our collection are made from the hard material bronze and marble and have a beautiful patina. A patina is the outside color of bronze. It is the result of a chemical reaction with the copper in the bronze that literally changes the surface color of the bronze and it can be either natural, man-made or both.
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Watercolor is an amazing medium, unlike any other medium(like oil, poster, gouache, acrylic),the watercolors are meant to be painted in a manner that has transparency made by diluting the watercolor in the right amount of water to achieve both light and dark effects.
Watercolor, also known in French as aquarelle, is generally described as painting with water-soluble pigments on paper. Most commonly the pigments are suspended in a vehicle or binder of gum arabic. The classic painting technique was perfected in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The pigment was applied in a series of transparent washes that allowed light to be reflected from the surface of the paper through layers of color. This technique gives watercolor its unique glow. Washes are layered to increase density and transform color already laid down. With this method, the colors are mixed by the viewer's eye and create a unique visual characteristic. Some of the most notable watercolorist include JWM Turner, Georgia O'Keefe, John Singer Sargent, John James Audubon, and Mohrien.
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