What's the Difference Between Realism & Naturalism? | ARTiculations

Betty explains the difference between the art movement realism and the art style naturalism. #withcaptions

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[ajmittendorf]

OK, Speaking as a writer, an English professor and a person who is more than an art enthusiast but less than an art expert, I need to tell you how well this video is done. First, you give clear definitions of two terms that are often misunderstood. I still have to look them up the terms sometimes because I get confused. Second, you help our understanding by giving insight into what each term is not, contrasting both terms with their appropriate opposites. That was very clever. Third, you offer several well chosen examples that help visualize the ideas you're trying to explain. Finally, you speak clearly, articulately and professionally, so that no one is left asking, "What did she say?" or saying, "I didn't understand what she just said, " or complaining, "She keeps mumbling!" 10/10 on elocution. I don't know what level of education you have, or what level of art you teach, but in my own art writings and in my English classes, I will be using this video to exemplify and/or explain what people need to know. Thank you.

[crabgod]

this was actually quite interesting! i used to always confuse realism with naturalism's definition.. but now it makes a lot more sense ahah. keep making videos!

[ricv]

wow Ive been a figurative painter for 38 plus years and I gotta say you did a great job .

[christophersnedeker]

Realism: Potato Eaters by Van Gough

Naturalism: Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism by Peter Paul Rubens

[ultraninja]

Super helpful, I'm doing summer hw for Ap euro and those 3 words keep popping up saying like such paintings were focused primarily on so and so but change to be more of that during that time period. This video is just really helpful over ty.

[budmckechnie]

Betty, this is a very helpful video, and I congratulate you for this. Please ask the captions artist to correct the misspellings in the captions: principles, not principals, (1:00) and naturalism not natualism (1:23)

[joelpace]

Thank you for making this. People's use of "realism" as a description for any representational art has always bugged me, particularly in the case of the "atelier" art schools who use the ridiculous term "classical realism", Classicism and Realism being completely different art movements. ( And, just in case you can still edit the video, you might want to check the spelling of "naturalism" at 1:20.)

[alley]

Thanks for the video. I came across this researching literary naturalism. In literature naturalism is defined not by how the author depicts the natural environment, trees, the ocean and so forth, but is the idea that characters are defined by their genetics and culture. The French novelist Zola embodies literary naturalism. In his novels poor people can never rise out of their poverty, if a character's father is mad than that character is mad. It's all very depressing and goes hand in hand with the literary sub-genre called depressive realism, which is practiced by authors today like Michel Houellebecq and David Szalay. Anyway, this is what brought me to your channel. It was good to see how these terms are used in the fine arts. Keep it up :)

[sandykl]

I loved this video so much! I love the artworks you talked about, some of which are my personal favorite. This gave me a flash back of my elementary school years when from when we had an art historian visit our school each month. She would talk about famous artworks and artists like the ones you showed in the video, too. Those were my favorite times! I will never forget them! I remember some presentations from when I was 7 years old learning about French artwork. It was so great.

[cpujolsdesign]

Wow, this is really well done! Thanks for the video 😁

[StarlyPop]

YEEES!! thank you!! now i can send this video to people who dont understand the difference

[Yousbirds]

Simply, you're the best one !! So talented :)

[throwawaybeanboy]

Got an assignment on realism and this helped understand it a lot! Thanks!!!

[MrTAYA]

Your video is more realistic than idealistic, more naturalistic than romantic !

Thanks for the hyper explicit explanation ! 

Please make more !

[issamorne]

Thank you so much 😍😍😍😍 i cant find these thorough explaination in google. 😅😅 lav u 😘

[antoinefurlan]

On our old continent, and specially at uni, we're used to say mimetism to speak about "realistic graphical representation" and not naturalism because this one is also a literary and painting movement in the same way as realism.

[danielaktas]

Amazing video! Using it in my art class. Thank you for sharing!!!

[David_Here]

wow! this is amazing stuff! Im so glad i met you at vidcon ^.^

[hemantdhaked]

thanks mam, it cleared my all doubts about realism and naturalism.

[antonytalia]

Love this, these definitions really helped me articulate and understand the style of the FX show Atlanta. Naturalism but definitely not realism- surrealism. Thanks!