Comparative Study by

Realism

mcarrion1 — 2017-10-12 20:11:11 UTC

The Pictorial Realism was an artistic current that developed in the mid-nineteenth century and reached its maximum splendor in France. It is characterized by the fact that the artists left aside the supernatural and magical themes and focused on more common themes. The main pictorial subjects were those of daily life.

The Baroque movement

mcarrion1 — 2017-10-12 20:11:11 UTC

The Baroque is a cultural movement or period of art that appeared in the year 1600, approximately, and that it arrived until the 1750. The baroque term arises originally with a pejorative meaning, through centuries XVIII and XIX is used like synonymous of recharged , excessive, irrational, until the revaluation of the term. The Baroque period is between the Mannerist and Rococo periods (although some definitions come to include both movements as part of the Baroque and therefore place it between Renaissance and neoclassical art), at a time in which the Catholic Church that reacted against numerous cultural revolutionary movements that produced a new science and new forms of religion (Reformation).

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mcarrion1 — 2017-10-12 20:11:11 UTC

Vermeer was Dutch and developed his pictorial activity during the seventeenth century, in the middle of the Central European Baroque period.

Gustave Courbet

mcarrion1 — 2017-10-12 20:11:11 UTC

Courbet, French, developed his activity as a painter during the nineteenth century and in the period of Realism.

From The painter in his studio and The Studio, it is intended to show and to give to know main differences and similarities between two important painters of different times, that are Jan Vermeer and Gustave Courbet. Both portray themselves in their workshop working on their tasks as a painter. In turn they performed different works where they also vastly expressed their ideas and thoughts.

mcarrion1 — 2017-10-12 20:11:11 UTC

Throughout this work two different periods of paintings, referred to The painter in his workshop could be made known. The two exponents cited, both Vermeer and Courbet have aspects in common as well as differences. They developed their activity in different historical periods.

mcarrion1 — 2017-10-12 20:25:48 UTC

Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)