1848 – 1907
Industrial Revolution II
- Becoming Modern More
- Early Photography More
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Pre-Raphaelites and
Arts & Crafts MoreDante Gabriel Rossetti Ecce Ancilla Domini William Holman Hunt Claudio and Isabella Our English Coasts ("Strayed Sheep") The Awakening Conscience, Awakening Sir John Everett Millais Ophelia Christ in the House of his Parents Mariana The Vale of Rest Ford Madox Brown Work William Dyce Pegwell Bay, Kent - a Recollection of October 5th 1858 Stanhope, John Roddam Spencer Thoughts of the Past Edward Burne-Jones King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid The Golden Stairs Hope Henry Wallis Chatterton William Butterfield All Saints, Margaret Street Morris and Webb Red House - Other Victorian More
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Realism
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Gustave Courbet A Burial at Ornans The Stonebreakers The Artist's Studio Bonjour Monsieur Courbet James Tissot London Visitors Rose Bonheur Plowing in the Nivernais Sheep in the Highlands Jean-François Millet L'Angelus The Gleaners Edgar Degas The Dance Class The Bellelli Family At the Races in the Countryside Place de la Concorde or Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Visit to a Museum Édouard Manet Le déjeuner sur l'herbe Music in the Tuileries Gardens Olympia Émile Zola The Balcony The Railway Plum Brandy In the Conservatory Corner of a Café-Concert A Bar at the Folies-Bergère Eva Gonzales A Loge at the Théâtre des Italiens
- Second Empire More
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Impressionism
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How the Impressionists Got Their Name Haussmann the Demolisher The Argenteuil Bridge Monet Gare St. Lazare Cliff Walk at Pourville Rouen Cathedral Series Poplars Les Nymphéas Caillebotte Paris Street; Rainy Day The Floor Scrapers Man at his Bath Cassatt In the Loge Little Girl in a Blue Armchair The Loge Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge Breakfast in Bed The Child's Bath Morisot Mother and Sister of the Artist Renoir Moulin de la Galette La Loge The Grands Boulevards The Large Bathers
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Post-Impressionism
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Seurat A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Bathers at Asnières Young Woman Powdering Herself Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Roulin Potato Eaters Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin The Bedroom Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear Cézanne Still Life with Apples The Bather The Basket of Apples Still Life with Plaster Cupid The Red Rock Turning Road at Montgeroult Bathers (London) The Large Bathers Paul Gauguin Jacob Wrestling with the Angel The Red Cow Spirit of the Dead Watching Oviri Nevermore Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec At the Moulin Rouge
- Art Nouveau More
- Symbolism More
- Modern Sculpture More
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American Art
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American Art
after the Civil War More -
America
in the Gilded Age MoreJohn Singer Sargent Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) El Jaleo The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl Robert Mills Washington Monument Henry Merwin Shrady Ulysses S. Grant Memorial
Other Victorian
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, A Reading from Homer, 1885, oil on canvas, 36-1/8 x 72-1/4 inches / 91.8 x 183.5 cm (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker
Where and When
London, England
1885
1885
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carlo russo wrote on Sunday, September 02, 2012
The article started off well but sadly it turned into the same old critique of 19th century work. Time and time again , critics feel the need to critique 19th century work through the a prism of modernist thought. The very meaning of the work and imagery is often distorted by the critic who assigns some a bizarre theory about the motives behind the work. Rather than accept that the artist created the work because he was inspired and enjoyed creating something. This is what artist do, folks. I do find it interesting that art critics who say things such as
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