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In at least 1100 words write your answer to the question "What is real?". Write this in relation to what you see reflected in the visual imagery of the Modern and Postmodern periods and use a visual example from each. Include in your discussion the idea of reflexivity, described in my overview of Modern art. It is a self-conscious element in modern life that really begins to show in the Renaissance.
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Running head: EXPLORATION OF REALISIM IN ART
Exploration of Realism in Art
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EXPLORATION OF REALISIM IN ART
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Exploration of Realism in Art
In art, realism delivers a message that represents the true reflection of situations. Realism
places focus on the characters, particulars, impartially, and there is a clear distinction between
the narrator and the author. Throughout the history of earth, societal problems have been
constant and are present in all nations and cultures. The contentious features of societies are
founded on a wide range of issues, and must be recognized in order to foster change within
society. As such, realism is the depiction of problems experienced in society and are part of daily
human life. Realism gives artists the chance to illustrate and focus on the difficulties experienced
in a society, while permitting the narrators to call for social change.
Realism in Modern Art
In modern art, artists of used montage to create meaning. The individuals had a futureoriented vision, a disdain of past practices, and an attraction for new techniques of the machine
age, and they recognized the changes in the masses' sensory engagement with the world through
the effects of the art. The favored modes included experimentation and formal innovation, and
graphic portrayals. Art in this period intersected to religion, and both are perfectly captured by
Karl Marx's dictum that both are "opiate of the masses" (Masséglia, 2015). The meaning is...