Explain the Royal Academy of Painting. What was it’s purpose? Do you agree or disagree with the approach. How does it differ from the practices of patrons from the Renaissance?
Describe the Realist style.
What did you think of the boldness of Courbet?
Do you see him as a pivotal game changer in the story of art?
Can you see that he and the fellow realists are asking new questions about art?
What do you think some of those questions were?
When the Impressionists came along, do you think that society was thinking one way about what a painting was and the artists were thinking something different?
When was your first encounter with Impressionism? If you have had one that is.
What do you think of the shift in subject matter with Impressionism? Shifting away from the objects themselves and trying to define visually how we ‘see’ them.
Comment on Woman in the Garden (Saint-Adresse) by Monet. Explain how your respond to his visual attempts.
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