Representing The RealArt is a shadow.
Greek, Archaic, 
Kouros
c600 BCE 6' 4" marble
Greek, Classic, Polykleitos, 
"Doryphoros" c450BCE
Plato
Pronunciation: 'plA-(")tO
circa 428-348 (or 347) B.C. Greek philosopher; disciple of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle; with them laid philosophical foundations of Western culture

Plato's ideas on art.
Plato's Republic
mimesis - imitation.  Things that appear in nature are reflections of universal essences, the True, the Good, and the Beautiful.

Materials and Evolution

Greek, Archaic, 
Kouros
c600 BCE 6' 4" marble

Greek, Classic,
Polykleitos, Doryphoros c450BCE

Greek, Late Hellenistic, 
Praxiteles, Hermes and Dionysos c340BCE

 

Ife 13th Century
Benin 14th-15th Century
Benin 15th-16th Century
Benin 17th-19th Centuries

Nature and the Genre Scene


Millet, Gleaners, 1857
nature and everyday life: genre
 
 


Pierre Auguste Renoir. Moulin de la Galette. 1876


Honore Daumier, Third Class Carriage, 1862 oil on canvas, 25"x35"
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada


Honore Daumier, Third Class Carriage, 1862.
Drawing


Honore Daumier, The Third-Class Carriage 1863-65 Oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York



Daumier, Honore 1808-1879
First-ClassCarriage 1864
black chalk, wash,watercolor and 
conte crayon on wovepaper 
Baltimore:Walters Art Gallery inv.37.1225










 

Daumier, Honore 1808-1879 French -
Third Class Carriage 
Berlin :Private Collection Gerstenberg Collection


COURBET,Gustave. Stonebreakers 1849 destroyed 1945, French, Realism