Case Study, Visual Arts and Film Studies

.(200 words)
In the 19th century, the camera was a revolutionary invention. Did the invention of the camera change the arts? Why or why not? Is there a relationship between movements such as realism and impressionism and the camera? So how do we make the leap from looking at photographs as simple keepsakes and memories and elevate them to the esteemed heights of “serious art?” What differentiates the common snapshot and the photograph as art?

2.(100 words)
Choose realism or impressionism as a basis for your posts and discuss how your choice is manifested in any area of the humanities (i.e., painting, sculpture, literature, music, etc.), and give an example from any discipline in the humanities to illustrate how realism or impressionism influenced the work of art. Please be sure to give an analysis of how the work of art was influenced by the movement.

3.(200 words)
Impressionism is a style of art that has enjoyed wonderful popularity, yet, when it was first introduced, critics disliked Impressionism immensely. Consider the following: “An outraged critic, Louis Leroy, coined the label “Impressionist.” He looked at Monets Impression Sunrise, the artists sensory response to a harbor at dawn, painted with sketchy brushstrokes. “Impression!” the journalist snorted. “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished!” Within a year, the name Impressionism was an accepted term in the art world. If the name was accepted, the art itself was not. “Try to make Monsieur Pissarro understand that trees are not violet; that the sky is not the color of fresh butter… and that no sensible human being could countenance such aberrations… try to explain to Monsieur Renoir that a womans torso is not a mass of decomposing flesh with those purplish-green stains,” wrote art critic Albert Wolff after the second Impressionist exhibition. Although some people appreciated the new paintings, many did not. The critics and the public agreed the Impressionists couldnt draw and their colors were considered vulgar. Their compositions were strange. Their short, slapdash brushstrokes made their paintings practically illegible. Why these artists didnt take the time to finish their canvases, viewers wondered. Why did critics react so strongly to this new art form?