11/17/2017 (Unit 2) - Realism

Research on Realism

Realism refers to an art movement that revolts against the theme of Romanticism movement in terms of emotion and exaggeration. Moreover, the art movement life spanned for around 40 years from 1840 to 1880 on which followed the Romanticism movement thus becoming Modern Art. The characteristics of Realism tried to depicts the looks of the real world converting it into a Modern Art. So artists painted everyday subjects and people but fails to interpret the setting and add emotional meaning to the scenes.

Young Women from the Village (Gustave Courbet)

The artwork shown beside portrays an example of realism. However the painting conveys a stark contrast to Romanticism. The  painting itself consists of three women dressed in country clothes thus the landscape of it looks rough and ugly also the cows in the background doesn't portray the art movement either. The rich lady is handling some money to the poor girl while other look on. The artist - Courbet got criticism for the reality of this painting, but that was what he found beautiful and capturing.

How it affects animation
How it affects animation relates to the word 'Abstract'. Character animations are being perceived with physical realism. In order to perfect it, animators use musculoskeletal model simulation to as part of bio-mechanic research and describe how certain models can be useful without the presence of force measurements externally. Moreover, they define 2 qualities of measurements that conveys the principle aspects of physical realism.

• The first quality obeys the Newton–Euler laws of motion by measurement on to a certain extent of animation. 
• Then the second one reflects on realism due to the amount of muscle force a human would need to perform.