THE AGE OF INNOCENCE THE GILDED AGE American

THE AGE OF INNOCENCE THE GILDED AGE: American Art and Culture In the 1870’s and 1880’s

Two Terms You Should Know • Realism: Just like it sounds! Artists create “reality” that reflects the social, aesthetic, and historical forces of the “real world. ” (Influence of photography) • Romanticism: Just like it sounds! Artists create a “reality” that might be idealized, hyper-sensual, hyper-emotional in order to draw the viewer/reader in. (Heavy with the idea that Nature is a source of wisdom/ideal life…)

Americans • still in love with their landscape, with the idea of Manifest Destiny, with the idea of selfdetermination • Rich Americans wanted to look like the landed aristocracy and noblility of Europe and to “copy” European buildings of note.

Eduard Manet - French (1862)

“Daughters of Edward Boit” - John Singer Sargent (1888)

Edith Wharton at The Mount

Henry James and Edith Wharton – at the Mount

Joshua Reynolds (English) (1723)

Mrs. Henry Whiter - John Singer Sargent American (1883)

Mrs. Isabella Gardner (1888) – John Singer Sargent – American

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston (1900 ish) Italian Pallazzo

Typical Italian Pallazzo

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Renaissance Building – Aesthetic of

Boston Public Library – Mc. Kim, Mead And White (188 -95)

The Breakers - WM Hunt

Home of the Vanderbilts WMHunt “The Breakers”

Marble House WM Hunt Hall of Mirrors Versailles