---Juste Milieu---
Gerome, Juste Milieu Painter and Modern Day Photorealism Painters
This past week in class, we are learning about the Juste Mileu movement. One painter that struck me was Gerome. His art strokes were so maticulus that his paintings were more like photographs. I love photography, and I love art, hence I am a lover of Photorealism art for sure! Some of my favorite photorealism artist are:
Jason Brooks,
Richard Estes,
Audrey Flack,
Hilo Chen,
Don Eddy,
Chuck Close,
and Davis Cone,
just to name a few!
The reason why this week I am writting about photorealism artist, is because they remind me of the painting by Gerome, "Snake Charmer" (1860's)
allthough Gerome, was making "picture perfect" art back in the 1860's, his work as maticulus as it was was in a sence too perfect to be reality. This as pointed out by the article "Imaginary Orient" is a danger to history. Why? because it removes the "painting" quality from the piece, and instead creates a "reality" in the mind of the viewer. Most of the work of the photorealism artist I like, look sooo very real that I forget I am looking at a painting at times, and I start to look at it like I would a picture, and that makes me think it is a real person, in real time, in the real world, making it hard for me to keep in mind that what I am looking at is in fact "fantasy." It is a dangerous skill to have, to paint a fantasy reality in the minds of people, because one can malipulate the present, and in turn that manipulates history brush stroke by stroke.
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