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EARLY MODERNISM

Realism, Photography,

19th Century Architecture

(1836 - 1908 C.E.)

CONTENT: What do you see?

FORM: The details (what you see more exactly). How the artist delivers the content.

CONTEXT: Everything NOT observable.

FUNCTION: The intended purpose of the work.

Assignments:

READINGS: 

 

UNIT Sheet: below

 

SNAPSHOT Sheet:

Early Modernism -

Modernism Unit Sheet

APAH 250 Images:

Realism

113. The Stonebreakers, Gustave Courbet 

115. Olympia, Édouard Manet 

119. The Burghers of Calais, Auguste Rodin 

Photography

114. Nadar Elevating Photography to Art, Honoré Daumier 

110. Still Life in Studio, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre 

117. The Horse in Motion, Eadweard Muybridge 

127. The Steerage, Alfred Stieglitz 

19th Century Architecture

124. Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, Louis Sullivan 

 

 

Vocabulary

Aquatint
Avant-garde
Caricature
Drypoint
Japonisme
Lithography
Modernism
Plein-air
Positivism
Skeleton
​Zoopraxiscope

Early Modernism -

Modernism Unit Sheet

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