19th Century American Painters Flashcards
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- power of his art came from scale and subject
- mountains of the West painted on gigantic canvases
- Typically dark foreground w/ bright light deep in picture
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Bierstadt
1
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- Genre in Landscape
- Idyllic scenes of the frontier
- Work - Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
- Daniel Boon Escorting Settlers Through Cumberland Gap
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Bingham
2
Q
Mostly portraits – glamorous, lavish
- Madame X
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Sargent
3
Q
Painter - Sculptor - illustrator
Rough painting type
Thicker surface
- The Apache
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Remington
4
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Painter - Sculptor - Illustrator - writer
- Buffalo Hunt
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Russell
5
Q
- lithographic prints which captures 19th century everyday life
- they made art available in America
- stimulated an interest in art, painting, drawing, etc.
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Currier and Ives
6
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Emphasis on formal values – compostition and arrangement tonal paintings – shades of one color
- Work - Arrangement in Gray and black
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Whistler
7
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- Influenced by photography
- Young ppl at play
- Heroism of man’s struggle against nature
- Pioneering spirit
- Nature itself – particularly violence of elements
- Seascapes – especially storms
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Homer
