id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9046 Classical Realism - Wikipedia .html text/html 1664 134 59 The term "Classical Realism" first appeared as a description of literary style, as in an 1882 criticism of Milton's poetry.[1] Its usage relating to the visual arts dates back to at least 1905 in a reference to Masaccio's paintings.[2] It originated as the title of a contemporary but traditional artistic movement with Richard Lack (1928–2009), who was a pupil of Boston artist R. In a separate vein, another major contributor to the revival of traditional drawing and painting knowledge is the painter and art instructor Ted Seth Jacobs (born 1927), who taught students at the Art Students League and the New York Academy of Art in New York City.[3] Their lineage is rooted in the Académie Julian, the Golden Age of Illustration in New York, and the School of Paris. Classical Realist painters have attempted to restore curricula of training that develop a sensitive, artistic eye and methods of representing nature that pre-date Modern Art. They seek to create paintings that are personal, expressive, beautiful, and skillful. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9046.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9046.txt