ADV 316 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Thomas Eakins, Jane Addams, Winslow Homer
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Winslow homer america"s first non-oxbox-god-style landscape paintings. The gulf stream painting: boat in distance he can"t catch, storm, rough seas, broken mast, sharks, blood. Got started working as journalist (didn"t want visitors so put up snake sign, painted fox hunt symbolizing himself as fox with foreboding crows hunting) Thomas eakins the agnew clinic showing surgical observation. Jacob riis how the other half lives. in time where america was supposed to be golden, showed others the problems and inspired change. Not really a realist but fit into spirit of time with reform. Set foundation for new social america, 20,000 people every week. Louis sullivan, carson pirie scott. towering figure in architecture ha, father of modern (right place right time, chicago exploding in 1899) High quality fireproof steel frames, taller buildings, safe elevators.
