Folk Art Flashcards
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What is folk art?
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- No formal education
- Commo Folk
- Local concers
- Crafts
- Local beliefs/seuperstitous
- Passed down tradition
- Rural vs. Urban
- Naive
- Authentic
- Folk art undercut the traditional ways of teaching history
- unpretentious
- edearing
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Winthorp Chandler
- atarted as oramental/utiliarian painter. Guilding, carving, housepaiting
- saw works by Copley
- about 50 portraits of eighbours and friends
Reverend Ebenezer Devotion 1770
- authentic view
- overly detailed objects in an unorderly way.
3
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Copley vs. Folkart?
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- More realistic shading - chiaroscuro
- 3 dimesioal. Less flat and woody
- No outlines
- more advanced definition of texture
- Less objects.
- More psycholocial treatment
- Lighting
- Reference to classical objects
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Winthorp Chandler
Mrs. Ebenezer Devotion 1770
- heavey outline
- lack of definition in texture
- Flat - some classical characteristics
- objects to declaire the quality of the sitter
- crazy fabric above=typical Winthorp
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Winthorp Chandler
Captain Samuel Chandler 1780
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Winthorp Chandler
Mrs. Samuel Chandler 1780
- Comparable to “Elizabeth Gibb & baby” in style
- desire to show wealth
- wearing imported fabrics
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Beardsley Limner
Mr Hezekiah Beardsley 1785-90
- How he dressed shows that he thought of himself as highstyle.
- Also reading/writing=high style and educated
- ok articulationof texture and windsor chair
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Beardsley Limner
Mrs. Hezekiah Beardsley 1785-90
- Hedgehood haircut
- popular the the time
- chair is rococo
- black ribbon=someone died
9
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Beardsley Limner
Little boy in windsor chair 1800
- suddenly Beardsley has no technique. Very inconsistent in technique
10
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Edward Hicks
Penn’s treaty 1830-35
- vary similar to Benjamin West’s “Penn’s treaty witht he indians” 1771-72
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Edward Hicks
Peacable Kingdom 1830-35
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Edward Hicks
Peacable Kingdom 1830-35
13
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Edward Hicks
Girl in red with ehr cat and dog 1830-35
