George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham was a famous painter and politician. His paintings are considered as some of America’s best art. George Caleb Bingham is considered to be the first outstanding American artist from the west. His political life and art define him as a leader. This paper will go over the life of George Caleb Bingham and how he was able to be a leader in the community and also how he was able to inspire other great artists and politicians
George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia on March 20th, 1811. George was the son of Henry Vest Bingham and Mary Amend. George was named after his Grandfather who was named George Washington Bingham, or so it is said that it is his name. Some people believe that this is not really his
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He used a luminist style of painting which means that he portrayed a landscape type of painting. He painted many sceneries that include houses, trees, grasslands, sunsets, ranches, and mountains. George Caleb Bingham is best known for his scenes that depict daily life out on the Western Frontier which means in Missouri.
In 1820, when George Caleb Bingham was nine, Missouri became the 24th state. He then moved to Franklin, Missouri from Virginia. When George was young he was known to draw on barns and side posts on fences. While Bingham was still a young boy he had the chance to meet one of the most famous painters at the time that went by the name of Chester Harding. George watched Chester paint a portrait of Daniel Boone and it is believed that, that was the reason George Caleb Bingham got so into portrait painting. It inspired him in a way that he could use to influence others.
In 1833 George was solely making his money by painting portraits of his friends and strangers alike. His friends liked the portraits so much that he began to travel to other towns and try to ask people if he could paint a portrait of them for a price. Bingham’s paintings from 1845-55 are considered his best
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He helped lead in the coalition against President Andrew Jackson due to the illness of one of the coalition's original leaders William Crawford at the time. He did this because he strongly opposed some of the views that President Andrew Jackson had. Bingham believed that there should not be any strong centralized government. After his works with the coalitions he moved to Washington to pursue leadership through politics. In 1844 he returned to Missouri and was elected to the Missouri State Legislature. His political gains did not stop there as he kept studying to get in new positions in politics. In 1862 he was elected as the Treasurer of the State of Missouri and in 1865 was elected adjutant general of Missouri. Although he was pursuing his passion as a Famous Politician he still continued to paint pictures of other politicians and political
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.
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The painting tells us how unjust Bingham felt the election was, it shows us that the other candidate used cheap tricks like buying voters and trying to influence voters before they voted instead of having a fair election. Bingham masterfully used this painting to express his feelings toward the unruly election he also used this to teach us many problems that needed to be resolved if we were to have reasonable
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George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York on 26 September 1898, was born the second of four children of Morris and Rose Gershovitz, Russians who immigrated to New York in 1891. George and his family lived on Manhattan's lower east side in a poor Jewish community. After settling down in New York, his father changed the family name to Gershvin. It was George who later altered his last name to Gershwin when he entered the professional world of music. Most of his family was not musically talented, but his brother Ira became a wonderful well-known musician.
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