ART H208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Daniel Chester French, Winslow Homer, William Sidney Mount
29 Aug 2016
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1. photography hadn"t been developed so that you could actually see the action of war. 2. usually just photos after the battle -- depicted death. Timothy o"sullivan, a harvest of death, gettysburg, july 1863: authorised by the washington d. c. commission of fine arts on. Henry bacon and daniel chester french, lincoln memorial, 1911-22: the enormity of the statue can only be appreciated when seeing it up close, lincoln is certainly his most well known statue and in its setting in the. Lincoln memorial, by far his most widely beloved. Depicts a northern farmer (wheat field is evidence its in the north) cutting the grain. The title tells us its a veteran and a it is a new field a. In the right corner there is a canvas backpack and canteen, common for a union soldier: references the battlefield = uses metaphor. Figure of death is often represented with a scythe & a soldier is also an agent of death.
