1 1: What Is Art? Humanities Libretexts
In this early canvas-based work, painted when he was only twenty years old, a patchwork cranium is featured, a pictorial equal of the monster from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, constructed as a sutured sum of incongruent parts. Beyond France, realism is exemplified by artists similar to Wilhelm Leibl in Germany, Ford Madox Brown in England, and Winslow Homer within the United States. The movement unfold quickly throughout Europe and so far as Ottoman Turkey and China thanks to decoration books that includes cartouches, arabesques and shell work, in addition to designs for wall panels and fireplaces.
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