Final Project Choice #1- Write a Paper Assignment (750-1000 Words)

Topic: The evolution of realistic art. (1400s – 1800s)

Over history in art, realism has influenced the way art is done. The addition of more natural methods into art has made it more life-like and it helps the viewer to be more amazed and engaged.

Thesis: In art history realism has influenced the way art is perceived by people evolving to a more natural and realistic art rather than exaggerated dimensions and unnatural work of art.

Below is the different works of art I will be using for this Final Project:

 

 The Dead Christ, by Andrea Mantegna c.1480

Plato, Aristotle and other ancient philosophers and mathematicians depicted in Raphael’s School of Athens, fresco, 1509-1511

 

Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom, The Return to Amsterdam of the Second Expedition to the East Indies, 1599

A Burial at Ornans (1849-50) by Gustave Courbet