ARTH 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Hovenden, The Gross Clinic, Thomas Eakins
12 Jan 2017
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Piece displayed in the manufactures and liberal arts building. Work reflects the time, a time with high migration during the growing industrial revolution. Depicts a young man leaving his home in rural america for work in the city. Mood of sadness and somber is reflected in the facial expressions, but also sentimental. Furniture and objects indicate their middle to lower class. This scene would have been enacted/real for many individuals in their personal homes (if not in their homes, in the homes of someone they knew) making for a poignant moment. Creates a visual record of their turmoil, but also could speak to his personal story as an immigrant and several other immigrants who left their homes. Realism: used people he knew (mainly family and friends) as models for the figures, objects painted were replications of those from his own home. Work was proclaimed as the best by an american-born artist .
