The Art of Old
Museum Exhibit
Visit the Art of Old exhibit at the Washam museum of history!
Great Composers of The Era
George Frederick Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Famous Art Styles
Baroque
Rococo
Art in the 1800s
Realism
Realism is an attempt to make art and literature resemble life. Realist painters and writers take their subjects from the world around them (instead of from idealized subjects, such as figures in mythology or folklore) and try to represent them in a lifelike manner.
As you can see in Jean Francois Millet's The Gleaners realism shows the grim reality of life.
Romanticism
This picture on the right shows the characteristics of Romanticism as big, bold, unrealistic, romantic.
Impressionism
The example to the right is of an impressionist poem. It shows the characteristics of large brush strokes and less blending.
Photography
This picture on the right is one of the earliest photos every taken.
Post-Impressionism
the work or style of a varied group of late 19th-century and early 20th-century artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Cézanne. They reacted against the naturalism of the impressionists to explore color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a concern that led to the development of expressionism.
The picture shown here is a Post-impressionism painting.