Courbet and Cindy Sherman are both the conceptual artists. They both illustrates an idea in the photography each creating an allegory to highlight the main concepts. However, Cindy Sherman’s work are more of a personal level to her and depicts the documentation of gender concerns in the society from her own perspective whereas Jeff Wall has emphasized on a wider community to achieve the purpose of his works by staging the imageries, events and the access to external subject matter that is significant. Although, it is true that they both are conceptual artists whose strengths and the techniques vary yet uses concept as the chief aspect in their works. Courbet is a painter who brings realism in the form of arts that sought to depicts the truth …show more content…
Each use of symbol symbol has a meaning and that exhibits a meaning. The landscapes that an artist is painting is a symbol of truth and nature and the existence of the beauty.The different elements such as priest, couples, beggar-woman, artists, nude lady, animals and himself surrounded by all these elements depicts the fact of the social dynamic i.e; the upper-class, lower-class and animals. But they each hold different symbol too. Such as, a dog in the composition is seen as a symbol of freedom and a boy child as a symbol of innocence. here , it is obvious that the role an individual play in the society and the clothes an individual wear defines their position is in the society which can be viewed through how the beggar woman is used for a symbol of poverty and the well-dressed people as a symbol of wealthy and educated class. The Studio was made with his approach on the Avant-Garde after an Academic art lost its power and for its cliche of using …show more content…
The forms given by the shapes, light, color and the lines have 3 dimensional effect on the composition. However, all the three artworks have used human figures in their works to present their intentions and the purpose of creating the artwork. Courbet was a painter who was influenced by idealism and romanticism which encouraged him to look towards realistic. Also, the fact that he came from the time when the industrial revolution just began. So, looking at the time period, there is a high contrast between the movement that the artists came from. So, Jeff Wall and cindy Sherman has their conceptual photography influenced by the conceptual art. The technological development is a factor that assisted in the developing of new art