Thomas Cole was a very skilled American artist. He possessed the ability to view a landscape and depict how he viewed it by painting and sketching in breathtaking, realistic detail. A few of his more popular work include The Garden of Eden (1828), Distant View of Niagara Falls (1830), The Titans Goblet (1833), and The Oxbow (1836). Majority of Cole’s life experiences, and his interest in various views of the untamed American landscapes contributed to his inspiration, and great success in creating many of his paintings.
On February 1, 1801 the talented landscape artist Thomas Cole was born, to James and Mary Cole in Bolton-le-Moor Lancashire, England. He was the youngest of seven children. According to some sources Cole had a tough childhood, at the age of 9 he was sent off to go to a school in Chester where he allegedly suffered from malnutrition, cruel punishment, and frequent sickness .During his teenage years Cole was trained as a textile designer. In 1818 at the age of 17 his family immigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. James Cole was unable to find suitable work to support his family in Pennsylvania so he eventually packed them up and moved to Steubenville, Ohio leaving Thomas behind. Thomas Cole spent most of his first year in the United States alone in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania working as a textile print designer and wood engraver before joining his family in Ohio. James Cole opened up a wall paper manufactory business in Ohio where Thomas eventually started working for him as a designer, and also engraved woodblocks. Cole’s interest and curiosity in Art began around 1820. While doing some traveling to surrounding towns he met an artist named Stein, who taught him the basics of using oi...
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...le played in paving the way for American Landscape artist to evolve. To honor Thomas Cole and his accomplishments, the farm that he used for studio space in Cedar Grove is now known as the Thomas Cole House and one of the highest peaks located in the Catskill Mountains was named Thomas Cole Mountain.
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Decode-Explore Thomas Cole”(2010) - www.explorethomascole.org/tour/items/49/decode
“Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow” By Dr. Bryan Zygmont - smarthistory.khanacademy.org/romanticism-us-cole.html
“Thomas Cole/ View from Mount Holyoke” (2006) - hrs-art.com/.../thomas-cole-view-from-mount-holyoke-northampton-mas
“Thomas Cole bio- Cedar Grove” (2005) - www.thomascole.org/biography-of-thomas-cole/
“Thomas Cole (1801-1848) – Metropolitan Museum of Art (2014)-www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd_cole
Prebles’ Art Forms an introduction to the visual arts (2011) - Patrick Frank-
The Cone Gatherers written by Robin Jenkins covers many topics. The two topics I shall mainly focus on are the eventual insanity of Duror the gamekeeper and also his evil towards Calum and Neil, the two cone gatherers. As I read the book, I discovered that Duror was an evil and disturbed human being who was driven to insanity by his hate towards the cone-gatherers.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. 3rd ed. Vol. 1. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. Print.
Beginning his career as an artist early in life, Turners father provided his young son his first exhibition space, hanging and selling Turners works in the family Barbershop. Turners’ early experiences in art were limited and largely self-taught until entering the Royal Academy Schools in 1789 at the age of 14. From 1790 onwards Turner was heavily influences by architectural draftsman and teacher of perspective, Thomas Malton, a man Turner described as his ‘real master.’ The influence of Malton is clear in Turners superb architectural renderings that frequent his landscapes, being praised by the London Times of the 3rd of May 1797 for his ‘exquisite architectural views. ’
Did The Green Knight poem make allusions to Biblical tales? . Allusions is a vague description of a person, place or thing without being too specific. Allegory is a hidden meaning within a story that one has to discover on his or her own. Green Knight makes allusions towards the bibical tales of The Garden of Eden. The allegoring retelling of The Garden of Eden is apparent in the Green Knight in one big way, temptaion. The symbolic references from both stories are similiar in many aspects.
Grant Wood is a famous philosopher who was born in February in the year 1891 in Anamosa, Iowa. Wood was born to Quaker parents on a small farm. This experience would be the basis of his iconic images of small-town plain folk and verdant Midwestern vistas. He later moved to Cedar Rapids after the death of his father in 1901. He first studied at the Minneapolis School of design between 1910 and 1911 and became a professional designer while attending night courses at the University of Iowa and at the Art Institute of Chicago. At the end of 1915 he gave up designing and returned to Cedar Rapids. After his military service he taught painting and drawing at the public school of Cedar Rapids and visited Paris in 1920 with Marvin Cone. His early works were outdoor scenes combining a bright Fauve palette and a loose, impressionistic style - the result of a 1923-24 trip to Italy and Paris, which included study at the Academie Julian. He visited Europe again in 1928 and notably went to Germany and Holland where he discovered German and Dutch primitive painters to whom he borrowed many facets. Wood was appointed head of the Iowa Works Progress Administration-Federal Arts project in 1934 and also taught at the University of Iowa.
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.
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.
Do you believe this novel has any significance for anyone living in 2011? I strongly believe this novel, The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, is highly significant for anyone living in 2011 because these problems are still existent within our society and many others as well. This novel discusses problems that are crucial not only to our country but to other countries that view the United States as a place of prosperity and success. Throughout the story the author’s main focus or theme is the conflict of socialism versus capitalism and the depressing truth of the American Dream. In fact, there are many substantial problems that occur in this novel but the most prevalent dilemmas are socialism, wage slavery, and the barrenness of the American Dream. Despite these dilemmas, I believe the author wants his readers to focus on his themes and see the disheartening truth of America’s corrupted past.
Charles Willson Peale was born on April 15, 1741 in Queen Anne’s, Maryland, he is best known for his portraits during the American revolution. As a young adult Peale worked as a saddler, watchmaker, and silversmith, this is how is art career started off his legacy. He started to exchange saddles for art lessons with John Hesselius, and during this time Peale found his true calling for art (Britannica). After this Peales career took off after a group of Maryland patrons sent him to London, where he studied for 3 years under American expatriate, Benjamin West .” (Britannica).
In the "Gilded Age" immigrants from all over the world became part of America's working nation in hopes of finding a new and better life for themselves and their families. As more and more new families moved to America with high hopes, more and more people fell victims to the organized society, politics, and institutions better described as, the system. The system was like a jungle, implying that only the strong survived and the weak perished. Bosses always picked the biggest and strongest from a throng of people desperate for work, and if you were big and strong, you were more likely to get the job then if you were small and weak. Packing town was also a Jungle in the sense that the people with more authority or political power acted as predators and preyed on the working people, taking their money unfairly because of the their lack of knowledge on the pitfalls of the New World and their inability to speak and understand the universal language adequately. The unjust and corrupt system kept workers from speaking out when they felt they had been wronged and punished them when they did. As a result of the system, men women and even children were overworked, underpaid and taken advantage of. Working immigrants weren't any better off in American then they were in their homeland, as they soon discovered. Dreams that any people had of America were washed away by the corrupt ways of the system.
Duncanson was an enterprising, self-taught landscape artist who was able to begin his career with the support of wealthy business men who knew would be successful in his art. He used the fame he acquired to support the abolitionist cause and became the first African American landscape artist to earn and make a living internationally. Duncanson’s works are now displayed throughout the United States, England, and Scotland. The Taft Museum of Art annually recognizes contemporary creations of African Americans through the Duncanson Artist-in-Residence
The naissance of the Hudson River School style launched a new era of artwork. Thomas Cole started this school and it was because of him American landscape painting came of age with the success. This was the first school of painting in the United States. Located in Northern New York by the Hudson River, the paintings focused on the nature and wilderness of the surrounding area. The Hudson River Painters believed that nature was a direct manifestation of God. As such, nature was to be depicted as accurately and as detailed as possible. If a man was included in a painting at all, he was painted small in stature to emphasize his relationship to nature (God). Because nature was considered perfect, the Hudson River Painters attempted to draw and paint landscapes directly, not from memory or imagination, and without embellishments or contrivances. The American landscape, wild and unspoiled, became a great source of national pride. The museums and galleries now focused on American art rather than European art for the first time. Importantly, the school helped make Manifest Destiny a popular idea, and thus contributed to western expansion.
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect, who was a pioneer in the modern style, is considered one of the greatest figures in 20th-century architecture. Wright was born June 8, 1867, in Richland Center, Wisconsin. When he entered the University of Wisconsin in 1884 his interest in architecture had already acknowledged itself. The university offered no courses in his chosen field; however, he enrolled in civil engineering and gained some practical experience by working part time on a construction project at the university. In 1887 he left school and went to Chicago where he became a designer for the firm of Adler and Sullivan with a pay of twenty-five dollars a week. Soon Wright became Louis Sullivan’s chief assistant. Louis Sullivan, Chicago based architect, one of America’s advanced designers. Louis had a profound influence on Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright was assigned most of the firm’s home projects, but to pay his many debts he designed ‘Bootlegged Houses’ for private clients in his spare time. Sullivan disapproved, resulting in Wright leaving the firm in 1893 to establish his own office in Chicago.
Stokstad, Marilyn, Michael Watt. Cothren, and Frederick M. Asher. Art History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson, 2011. Print
Utopia as a text is a clear reflection and representation of More’s passion for ideas and art. Through the character of Raphael, More projects and presents his ideas, concepts and beliefs of politics and society. More’s Utopia aims to create a statement on the operations and effectiveness of the society of England. This text is a general reflection of More’s idea of a perfectly balanced and harmonious society. His ideas and concepts of society somewhat contrast to the rest of 16th century England and indicate a mind that was far ahead of its time. A number of issues and themes are raised throughout the text to which More provides varying views and opinions. These are transmitted and projected through the perspectives of the fictional Raphael, More and Giles.