ART-HIST 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Gross Clinic, American Realism, Edmonia Lewis
13 Feb 2017
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18th and 19th century art in the us. Paul revere level of detail, sharpness looks smart with hand to chin expressing thought. He was a silversmith looks as though he just examined teapot. Depicted with tea pot because its highest form of silversmith. Craftsmen, artisan idealization of practice, characterized as great artists recent passing on townsend act, people couldn"t afford tea suddenly. People increasingly upset with great britain teapot could"ve been political symbol showing increasing anti. Global enterprise and merchandise system because materials from around world. The oxbow looks like divided two by diagonal line. View from mount holyoke, northampton, massachusetts, after a thunderstorm. One side sunny other is stormy, with a lightening bolt. Developed farm land on sunny side, other side untamed untouched wild. Dark side evokes the sublime, awe inspiring, pure nature, juxtaposed for opposition. Satchel and small insertion of himself in the nature painting.
