{"id":51,"date":"2018-10-21T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/?p=51"},"modified":"2018-10-21T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:34:17","slug":"realism-pre-impressionism-pre-raphaelites-winslow-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/2018\/10\/21\/realism-pre-impressionism-pre-raphaelites-winslow-homer\/","title":{"rendered":"Realism, Pre-Impressionism & Pre-Raphaelites – Winslow Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Realism, Pre-Impressionism & Pre-Raphaelites – Winslow Homer<\/p>\n

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\n<\/b>Winslow Homer, born on February 24th 1821 was an American Realist painter and is widely considered a distinguished figure in American art. While he painted a variety of subjects he is best remembered for his marine landscapes which <\/span>
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\n<\/span>Homer was largely self-taught, and excelled in the arts in his early childhood. His mother, Henrietta Benson Homer was an amateur watercolour prodigy and is believed to have helped him develop his skills. \u00a0Throughout his life he worked with a variety of mediums, including watercolours and oils. <\/span><\/p>\n

Homer became his work as commercial illustrator, and created many scenes of urban and country social life which were part of magazines such as <\/span>Ballou’s Pictorial<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Harper’s Weekly. <\/span><\/i>
\n<\/span>Here in these early works we can see the beginnings of his style emerging, qualities which would be recognisable in his later works as well. In general, these pieces utilised dramatic contrast in shading, simplified shapes, and clean outlines.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Bathers, one of Homer’s earlier works published in Harper’s Weekly, 1873<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It wasn\u2019t until later where Homer would begin to start working with oils. From there his most iconic pieces would be created. Before submitting his work <\/span>the National Academy of Design, Homer went to Paris and began to familiarise himself with landscape paintings in the area. He mostly focused on portraying pictorial landscapes and social life. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Homer’s “Crossing the Pasture” painted between 1871\u201372 is a good example of this<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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“Artists Sketching in the White Mountains” painted in 1868 is another later example of Homer’s work with landscapes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\n<\/span>Homer\u2019s work is considered to have reached its maturity in accordance to his work doing marine landscapes when he moved to Maine. He remained there and spent the majority of the 1880\u2019s perfecting marine landscapes. Critics noticed the jump in his style and stated that \u201cThey are works of High Art.\u201d During this time he also did many more watercolour paintings. During this period of his life we see many of his realistic tendencies come across. Homer\u2019s paintings never shy away from the brutality of the ocean or the struggle to survive, idea which he painted with bold brushstrokes and bold colour choices. <\/span>
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The Gulf Stream painted in 1899 is an example example of Homer’s unique portrayal of the ocean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\n<\/span>I had actually unknowingly come across Homer\u2019s marine landscape paintings, which I loved. I had only seen his later works, and I was unfamiliar with his scenes depicting social life. More than anything I think they\u2019re interesting to analyse knowing where he ended up. Over time, I think his work became bolder, more confident, a quality which I greatly admire. While I enjoy his earlier work, I don\u2019t think they compare to more recent works.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Northeaster, 1895<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Source<\/strong>
\n“Winslow Homer.” Wikiart<\/i>, www.wikiart.org\/en\/winslow-homer.<\/p>\n

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\nhttps:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/winslow-homer and first photo taken taken from wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Realism, Pre-Impressionism & Pre-Raphaelites – Winslow Homer Winslow Homer, born on February 24th 1821 was an American Realist painter and is widely considered a distinguished figure in American art. While he painted a variety of subjects he is best remembered for his marine landscapes which Homer was largely self-taught, and excelled in the arts in … Continue reading Realism, Pre-Impressionism & Pre-Raphaelites – Winslow Homer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7931,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-131-res"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/celiapalomarrobisco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}