How did the consumption of popular art come to embody the diversity of its audience? How was this change affected by technology?
What will be an ideal response?
During this time, art was created, not merely as a means to transmit an image such as a landscape or portrait, but also to convey a message and imbue the work with the creative process of the painter and his or her vision. It contained more meaning and feeling than art of earlier eras. Realism served as both a move away from the high art of previous centuries, which had limited audience appeal (only the wealthy). Realism portrayed subjects from real life. Painters, such as Daumier and Repin, did portraits of the lower classes and peasants in their day-to-day activities, decidedly not glorified or necessarily appealing to the elite, who could afford to buy art. Manet explored sensualism and the hypocrisy of modern society and was considered scandalous. Impressionism shifted the work of art to the perspective of the artist's feelings, conveyed through color and light. Paris became a center for artistic creation, and many people traveled to see the arts in Paris, utilizing new methods of travel. Art would be cheaply reproduced in lithographs so that middle-class and working families, who would never have been able to commission a painting, might enjoy the work in their own homes.
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