This course will examine the city of Paris as an artistic capital, looking at artists and art production in the mid-late nineteenth century. Focusing on the movements of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, we will investigate factors of contemporary life that affected subject matters, style, technique, and meaning in art works, in particular the invention of photography, urban planning, the modernization of Paris, and the political and social situation in France and Europe. While exploring the impact of these factors on painting, photography, sculpture, and architecture, the course will look at alternative art practices and exhibitions that challenged the status quo and that became the basis of modern art. We will investigate what makes Paris in the 19th century “modern” and trace how characteristics of modernism continue to define the art world up to today.
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