ART H208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic, Watercolor Painting
29 Aug 2016
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Entire career associated with philadelphia , often talked about as homegrown artist this is in philadelphia bridges are recognizable: series of pictures of people sculling, he was a sculler himself. 4: quaker colony, can be talked about in the context of sports, masculinity etc, manly activities, frame is like a window that you can see beyond. Jean leon gerome- excurision of the harem 1869. Shows 3 generations: old man, adolescent, and young boy. Grandfather leans against chair and there is a cane and top hat on chair which: watercolor painting. Thomas eakins, negro boy dancing, 1878: studied the movement of the horses, taken advantaged of the new technologies of photography, eadward muybridge, galloping horse, 1878. Henry ossawa tanner- african american ex-pratoned in paris. Nationalism arose to question what made us art, american? vs. More closely aligned with what was happening in england and.
