Compare and Contrast : Howard Pyle and Thomas Moran Howard Pyle is one of the must popular illustrator, author and teacher in America at 19th century. He was born in 1853 in Wilmington, he was sent to an art school by his father when he was 16, he went to New York at the age of 23 to start his career of illustration. On 1880’s Pyle published The Merry Adventures of Robin,Pepper and Salt and Hood and Otto of the Silver Hand , he also illustrated the pictures for those books which became his representative works. Pyle painted The Buccaneer in oil in 1905, the way he depicts the pirate became the most symbolic and recognizable image of pirate, it influenced a great number of illustrators, directors and artists when they try to describe a pirate figure, even the figure of Jack Sparrow in the movie Pirates of the …show more content…
He founded his own art school in 1900, he teaches his student the way he creates illustrations and his Stylistic Solutions, design the gesture of a composition, use a dominant movement to show the gesture of the composition, then is use big shape of mass to organize different value group, and slowly built form and detail on the top of those masses. He also uses a lot of triangular shape to compose his image, because a triangle have a direction and always point somewhere. Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker who was born in February 12, 1837. Thomas was a painter who focused on american landscape, specially on Yellowstone National Park. Thomas started his career of artist as an apprentice in a wood-engraving firm in Philadelphia when he was a teenager, but he soon find wood-engraving is too boring, and he changed his interest to painting landscape. Under the influence of the British landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, he produced lots of landscape watercolors, which we can clearly see from the saturated and bright color using of his oil
Thomas would be in the category of romantic art for the theme of his artwork. He has based it on the beauty of nature and the fact that most of his major works were done in the period that romanticism took place, most of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Thomas Moran had attended the Hudson Valley River School, where many landscape artists had attended, too. He painted the Hudson Valley with the attraction, beauty, and scenery of the valley.(www.ency). He also was attracted to the awesomely romantic images of American wilderness and the open west, where he did most of his paintings. (www.art) Thomas was fascinated with Yellowstone and wanting to be associated with it painted the wilderness and scenery of it. (Vol.15) With the paintings he had done of Yellowstone Congress was fascinated with them, that they bought The Chasm and The Grand Canon of the Yellowstone Thomas had painted.
In the era where Thomas Cole first established the Hudson River School, other artist that is not from the United State such as John Constable, has the same taste in nature and outdoors. John Constable who is from England, created many painting from the surrounding area from his backyard to the countryside. For Cole’s painting, his work of art has been throughout the Hudson River, therefore, his painting consist of vast amount of forest, river, and mountains. He also travels in many locations in America and even done some painting in Europe. Both painter love nature, for this example, landscape will be the primary focus.
He got a lot of his inspiration from his mother. She loved painting with water colors and making
Thomas Cole was “America's leading landscape painter during the first half of the nineteenth century...” (Thomas Cole). He lived from 1801 to 1848. He was born in England, and in eighteen moved to America with his family before this he “... served as an engraver's assistant and as an apprentice to a designer of calico prints.” He began drawing nature from nature in eighteen twenty-three and started with trees and branches to become the great landscape painter he is recorded as today. Worthington Whittredge was born in 1820, and lived until 1910. He was born and lived in America his entire life. He was part of the Hudson River School. He was “...a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford.” ( Thomas Worthington)He traveled much of his life and mastered landscape painting.
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Born on February 24, 1836, in Boston, MA, Homer painted during the realism period. He is mostly known for; drawing, wood engraving, oil painting, and watercolor painting. Who was his teacher? Who were some of his subjects? What medium did he use? What major event in American history did Homer paint?
With his passion for painting, his admiration of landscapes and influence as a teacher, Thomas Cole was a proficient Romanticism artist. Undoubtedly because of his extensive traveling and studying various landscapes, Cole is one of the most well known landscape artist in America. Cole painted many landscape paintings, one of these being The Oxbow. Established by Cole the Hudson River School of Romantic Landscapes was created to teach students about painting landscapes. As American nature became realized to be beautiful and divine more and more artists commenced painting the eminent nature that God created for them.
Howard Pyle was born on March 5 1853 in Wilmington, Del and died on November 9, 1911 on Florence. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Mr. Pyle was an “American illustrator, painter, and author, best known for the children’s books that he wrote and illustrated.”(Editors of EB). Paul Giambarba, writer of 100 Years of Illustration states that “Academics usually refer to Howard Pyle as one of the greatest illustrators of his time.”(Giambarba) and in his personal opinion “was the greatest and the best” (Giambarba) illustrator. Paul goes onto to state that “Pyle was not content to continue copying himself in the same old way as they did for the most part, and he was at least as prodigious, turning out two illustrations a week, or 3,300 published illustrations during a 35-year career. Included among these were almost 200 stories that he wrote as well as illustrated.”(Giambarba)
Both articles concern the highly contentious subject of the British strategic bombing campaign in Germany during the Second World War. This subject focuses around the historical debate that the British government knowingly targeted civilian cities in Germany, killing hundreds of thousands of non combatants while also gravely misinforming the British public as to the purpose and results of their strategic bombing campaigns. In the years after the war the debate had come to light due to the renewed interest in the strategic bombing campaign. The articles by Mark Connelly and Alex Bellamy are products of this renewed interest. This essay seeks to compare and contrast the articles on three grounds: the different methods hat each historian uses
involved with other artists and interested in their work. He influenced and trained artists in his workshop. Some of his students included Donatello, Paulo Uccello, Michelozzo, and Benozzo Gozzoli. Many artists took notice of his style. His works show a development toward naturalistic movement, volume, perspective, and greater.
Mark Rothko is recognized as one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century and during his lifetime was touted as a leading figure in postwar American painting. He is one of the outstanding figures of Abstract Expressionism and one of the creators of Color Field Painting. As a result of his contribution of great talent and the ability to deliver exceptional works on canvas, one of his final projects, the Rothko Chapel offered to him by Houston philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil, would ultimately anchor his name in the art world and in history. Without any one of the three, the man, the work on canvas, or the dream, the Rothko Chapel would never have been able to exist for the conceptualization of the artist, the creations on canvas and the architectural dynamics are what make the Rothko Chapel a product of brilliance. Mark Rothko, born as Marcus Rothkowitz, was born September 25, 1903 in Gvinsk, Russia and by the age of ten had emigrated to the United States with his parents.
Winslow Homer was late 19th and early 20th century American painter and printmaker. Homer worked in lithography, printmaking, oil, watercolors and several other media. He is most regarded today for his work in landscapes and marine subjects. A lot of his early work focused on rural life in his native New England. This is evident in one of his famous genre paintings currently on display in the St. Louis Art Museum titled The Country School.
Originally, from Spain, Juan Gris moved to Paris in 1906. It was there where he learned and watched the progression of cubism. He met and lived next to innovators of this art form, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Although he is not the pioneer of this art form, his first significant paintings appeared in 1910 and...
Thomas Cole was born on February 1, 1801 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Due to financial problems his family endured, Cole, at the ripe old age of just fourteen, had to find work to assist with the family needs. He entered the work force as a textile printer and wood engraver in Philadelphia. In 1819, Cole returned to Ohio where his parents resided. Here, a portrait painter by the name of Stein, would become Cole’s primary teaching vehicle and inspiration for his oil techniques we’ve come to be familiar with. During this time, Cole was extremely impressed by what he saw in the landscapes of the New World and how different they were from the small town of England from whence he hailed. Self taught, art came naturally to Cole.
reached the age of 14. At 18 he became more serious about his art and