Dumbfounded: An Artist’s View
Have you ever walked into a pole? Has something ever distracted or amazed you so much, that you just took the time to stop and appreciate it no matter how busy you are at the time? Everyone is struck by something remarkable in life at one point or another. For some this could be the genius captured in the highest creations of architecture, for some this could be a painting, photograph or sculpture, while for others this could be the natural magnificence around everyone, The New Hope Impressionists or Pennsylvania Impressionists were awed by the vast Pennsylvania landscape and the beauty that surrounded them each and every time they painted. New Hope was formed in 1898 played a dominant role in the American art world of the 1910s and 1920s.
In 1898, two painters, William Langson Lathrop and Edward Willis Redfield, moved to Bucks County. Lathrop had taken a friend up on an invitation and had stayed with a family for a month or two and purchased the property almost a year later. “Lathrop was enthralled with the area” (Peterson 3). Also in 1898, Redfield cam to Bucks County, though not for the first town; born and raised in Delaware, he had visited many times. His family had come upon some land in the 1890’s and he moved there after he had purchased it from his aunt. Both painters brought their young families and were already nationally known for their work. Afterwards, many other painters followed—many with already prominent careers—mostly because of the presence of these two great artists.
Later, after many works of art, and a new style, the renown artist and critic, Guy Péne du Bois, would characterize these paintings as “America’s ‘first truly national expression’” (Westmoreland Museum o...
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... and many others, stopped this attempt and instead aimed to capture and transcend the splendor of their natural surrounding that had already dumbfounded them to their audiences.
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Impressionist paintings can be considered documents of Paris capital of modernity to a great extent. This can be seen in their subjects, style of painting, and juxtaposition of the transitive and the eternal.
Before Impressionism came to be a major movement (around 1870-1800s), Neoclassical and Romanticism were still making their impacts. Remembering last week’s lesson, we know that both those styles were different in the fact that one was based on emotion, while the other was practical and serious. However, one thing they both shared was the fact that the artists were trying to get a message across; mostly having to do with the effects of the French Revolution, and/or being ordered to do so. With Impressionism, there is a clear difference from its predecessors.
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During the 19th century, a great number of revolutionary changes altered forever the face of art and those that produced it. Compared to earlier artistic periods, the art produced in the 19th century was a mixture of restlessness, obsession with progress and novelty, and a ceaseless questioning, testing and challenging of all authority. Old certainties about art gave way to new ones and all traditional values, systems and institutions were subjected to relentless critical analysis. At the same time, discovery and invention proceeded at an astonishing rate and made the once-impossible both possible and actual. But most importantly, old ideas rapidly became obsolete which created an entirely new artistic world highlighted by such extraordinary talents as Vincent Van Gogh, Eugene Delacroix, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Claude Monet. American painting and sculpture came around the age of 19th century. Art originated in Paris and other different European cities. However, it became more popular in United States around 19th century.