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The hills of green, red, and brown The magic of youth ChrisM |
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"This picture is titled Snap the Whip, and it was painted in oil on canvas by Winslow Homer in 1872. It is representational in style because it shows natural objects in recognizable form. It can be seen at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. The painting shows a group of nine boys linking hands in a game called "snap the whip". They are in the foreground of the picture with a bright red schoolhouse behind them. Farther down the field are the much smaller figures of the schoolgirls. The hills rise steeply from the edge of the field blocking out all but a small portion of the sky." "Winslow Homer (1836-1910) painted this picture fairly early in his career. It was shortly after the Civil War, at which time Homer was an illustrator and corespondent for Harper's Weekly. This bucolic scene of children at play may have been a deliberate change on Homer's part to put the horrors of war behind him. Pictures of children at play show the more pleasent side of human nature. The significance of this work, like many other genre paintings that Homer is known for, is that it shows us a slice of life at that point in time." http://www.qvctc.commnet.edu/student/humanities/britracy/britracy.html |
| The lecture spoke about the different themes that Winslow Homer painted about during different periods of his life. He went from painting pictures of his family and people in general to pictures of the ocean and nature. When the Civil War started he got a job painting war scenes. Winslow also used different tools to paint. He used water colors, pastels, and oils for his paintings. As you can see, he was in his stage of drawings of people. My picture shows a little of both people and nature. |
| Art and poetry are the same in that they are both used to convey meaning. Art conveys meaning through colors and objects while poetry conveys meaning through words. While both art and poetry convey meaning, they do it by using different mediums. For a painter, it is oil, watercolor, or pastels (usually) and a piece of paper or canvas. A writer uses a pen or pencil and a piece of paper. It is said that: "Like the brushstrokes of an artist, the writer uses words to create meaning." This quote shows how painters and writers do similar works but in different ways. A painter does it with a paint brush and a piece of paper while a writer does the same thing with a pen and paper. |
