This document contains summaries of two artworks:
1) "Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols" by David Bailly from 1651. It blurs the lines between portrait and still life by including portraits within the still life arrangement, symbolizing the transience of life.
2) "Grayground" by contemporary Filipino artist Ronald Ventura from 2011. It depicts chaotic scenes with forces represented by horses going in opposite directions and figures in the void. It emphasizes the tension that occurs when two realms are in reverse. Ventura is known for blending realism, cartoons and graffiti in his works exploring themes of national identity in the Philippines.
A R T O F T H E M I D D L E A N D L A T E
1 9 T H C E N T U R Y
Realism in Painting and
Literature
Learning Objectives
To understand the forces which led to the
development of the Realist style
To recognize the major characteristics of Realist
painting
To be able to identify the major subjects of Realist
painting and literature
Realism in Painting
In part due to the impact of photography, the Realist painters wanted to branch
away from fantastic or Romanticized representation of life and nature and
instead strove to depict real-life events with real-life detail.
Realists tried to move away from their own feelings and ideas and instead
represent life as it actually was – not filtered through just one person’s
understanding or emotion. They wanted to represent life without any
embellishments and this meant even dealing with its ugly, dirty, or low sides.
Ultimately, they aimed for objective rather than subjective representation.
They were also concerned with contemporary events – with the here and now
rather than some romanticized past or utopian future.
The subject matter consists almost exclusively of the lower classes and rural poor.
Realists tried to convey the idea that ordinary people in modern times, not
archaic gods or kings and queens, were the proper subject for modern art.
The Realists also generally refused to use traditional iconography in their
paintings, such as Biblical allusions, mythological subjects, or complex symbols.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Courbet was one of the leading figures in this shift away from Romantic,
sublime, and idealized art toward a more true-to-life style in painting. He,
like most Realists, was also a social activist on the side of the working classes.
What follows are a few quotes from Courbet that reveal his new approach to
painting and which reinforce the characteristics on the previous slide:
“To be able to translate the customs, ideas, and appearances of my time as I
see them – in a word, to create a living art this has been my aim…”
“The art of painting can consist only in the representation of objects visible
and tangible to the painter…[who must apply] his personal faculties to the
ideas and the things of the period in which he lives…”
“I hold also that painting is an essentially concrete art, and can consist only
of the representation of things both real and existing…An abstract object,
invisible or nonexistent, does not belong to the domain of painting”
“A painter should paint only what he can see.” When asked why he never
painted angels, Courbet replied, “Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.”
Courbet
Self-Portrait
1848
Here is Courbet’s self-portrait. You can tell he
has not tried to create an idealized image of
himself or an overly sentimental image either. It
is simply what he sees in the mirror – for better
or for worse!
Gustave Courbet The Stone-Breake.
A R T O F T H E M I D D L E A N D L A T E
1 9 T H C E N T U R Y
Realism in Painting and
Literature
Learning Objectives
To understand the forces which led to the
development of the Realist style
To recognize the major characteristics of Realist
painting
To be able to identify the major subjects of Realist
painting and literature
Realism in Painting
In part due to the impact of photography, the Realist painters wanted to branch
away from fantastic or Romanticized representation of life and nature and
instead strove to depict real-life events with real-life detail.
Realists tried to move away from their own feelings and ideas and instead
represent life as it actually was – not filtered through just one person’s
understanding or emotion. They wanted to represent life without any
embellishments and this meant even dealing with its ugly, dirty, or low sides.
Ultimately, they aimed for objective rather than subjective representation.
They were also concerned with contemporary events – with the here and now
rather than some romanticized past or utopian future.
The subject matter consists almost exclusively of the lower classes and rural poor.
Realists tried to convey the idea that ordinary people in modern times, not
archaic gods or kings and queens, were the proper subject for modern art.
The Realists also generally refused to use traditional iconography in their
paintings, such as Biblical allusions, mythological subjects, or complex symbols.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877)
Courbet was one of the leading figures in this shift away from Romantic,
sublime, and idealized art toward a more true-to-life style in painting. He,
like most Realists, was also a social activist on the side of the working classes.
What follows are a few quotes from Courbet that reveal his new approach to
painting and which reinforce the characteristics on the previous slide:
“To be able to translate the customs, ideas, and appearances of my time as I
see them – in a word, to create a living art this has been my aim…”
“The art of painting can consist only in the representation of objects visible
and tangible to the painter…[who must apply] his personal faculties to the
ideas and the things of the period in which he lives…”
“I hold also that painting is an essentially concrete art, and can consist only
of the representation of things both real and existing…An abstract object,
invisible or nonexistent, does not belong to the domain of painting”
“A painter should paint only what he can see.” When asked why he never
painted angels, Courbet replied, “Show me an angel, and I’ll paint one.”
Courbet
Self-Portrait
1848
Here is Courbet’s self-portrait. You can tell he
has not tried to create an idealized image of
himself or an overly sentimental image either. It
is simply what he sees in the mirror – for better
or for worse!
Gustave Courbet The Stone-Breake.
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2. SELF-PORTRAIT WITH VANITAS SYMBOLS
BAILLY, DAVID
1651
OIL ON WOOD, 65 X 97,5 CM
STEDELIJK MUSEUM DE LAKENHAL, LEIDEN
In this vanitas still-life, the border between the two genres of the still-
life and the portrait are blurred.
On the one hand, there are several portraits (as painting within the
painting) forming part of a still-life arrangement on the table. The
arrangement includes, among other things, a skull, an extinguished
candle, coins, a wine glass on its side, a pocket watch, roses, a
pearl necklace, a pipe, books and sculpture. Soap bubbles hover
above them as symbols of transience.
On the other hand, the entire collection functions as a statement
about the young man on the left, whose face displays the typical
features of a self-portrait. It may therefore be somewhat irritating
that the artist was in fact 67 years old when he painted this picture in
1651.
3. However, the contradiction can be solved when we consider
that his current features are shown in the small oval portrait,
demonstratively held out towards the viewer - a medium which
in itself already documents the transience of life. The youthful
artist's face, by contrast, shows Bailly as he was at an earlier
stage in his life, more than four decades previously. Thus, by
changing the time references of past fiction and present reality,
the painting suggests that the young artist is anticipating his
future age, which - though part of the present in 1651 - appears
to belong to the past, as conveyed through the medium of the
portrait. The young man, who appears to be so real within the
first-degree reality of the painting, really represents a state of
the past.
Unlike the repetitive, dull and often schematic topics of Dutch
vanitas still-lifes, the misleading time scale in Bailly's painting
adds a new dimension to the whole subject.
4. Skulls, flowers, and burning or extinguished candles
were among the symbols of the transience and
impermanence of human life in his vanitas paintings. He
also included portraits of himself in these paintings to
emphasize the fleeting nature of his own artistic
achievements.
5.
6. FILIPINO CONTEMPORARY ARTWORKS
Ronald Ventura is a contemporary Filipino artist known for his
dynamic melding of realism, cartoons, and graffiti. Portraying scenes
of chaotic disarray, Ventura culls from science fiction, Western
history, Asian mythology, Catholicism, and popular comic book
characters, in producing his work. “I will paint and update a painting
until I am satisfied. It’s like a film director who is shooting a scene—
at certain points he will feel like he needs more extras or more light,”
he said of his working method. “This is the closest analogy to my
painting process that I can think of. It is like a process of addition
and subtraction.” He was born in 1973 in Manila, Philippines, he
earned a BFA in painting from the University of Santo Tomas in
1993. In 2011, Ventura’s painting Grayground set a record for the
most ever paid for a work of Southeast Asian contemporary art,
when it sold for $1.1 million at Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary
Southeast Asian Paintings auction in Hong Kong. His work has been
reviewed in The New York Times, and is included in many private
collections and Ventura continues to live and work in Manila,
Philippines.
7.
8. According to Mr. Igan D’Bayan, the existential mash-up of
styles (hyperrealism and graffiti, the classical and the
lowbrow — everything in between) continues for Ronald
Ventura in his painting titled “Grayground.” Here, as
presented with powerful forces represented by horses in
mid-stride going in opposite directions. A white thoroughbred
and ghostly horses going right; a couple of skeletal,
muscular, shadowy others going left. What lies between
(well, all over the place, actually) is the chasm, the void, the
gray area, mere anarchy and its happy riot of robots, dog-
men, disembodies figures, cryptic texts and menacing
doodles. Two red-and-black lines emphasize and (pardon
the pun) stress the tension, how — to steal a line from Yeats
— the center can no longer hold. For the artist, this is what
happens when two realms go on reverse: a hole is dug up
and all hell breaks loose. Therein lies the mystery.
9. There’s a lot of fun in guesswork. We could say that we as
viewers are confronted with how art is. Two forces (a
multitude, to be precise) go into opposite directions, leaving a
big gray empty lot of possibilities where nothing is real and
everything is permitted. No matter. This is where the wicked
party is. This is condition un-clash. This is Ronald Ventura’s
nihilistic playground. In Ventura’s multilayered painting
entitled Grayground (2011), the fusion between the physical
reals is made possible. The recurring theme of platonic or
metaphysical fall is magnificently interacted with the images
of robotics and modern technology Ronald is a leading figure
in Southeast Asian. His intricately layered paintings and
multimedia artworks intertwine historically laden symbols with
pop culture signifiers, creating richly imaginative
compositions that act as a metaphor for multifaceted national
identity of the Philippines.