{"id":174,"date":"2020-11-09T01:20:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T01:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/?p=174"},"modified":"2020-11-09T01:20:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T01:20:22","slug":"realism-pre-impressionism-pre-raphaelites-winslow-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/2020\/11\/09\/realism-pre-impressionism-pre-raphaelites-winslow-homer\/","title":{"rendered":"Realism, Pre-Impressionism, & Pre-Raphaelites : Winslow Homer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Winslow Homer (1836-1910)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Image 1: Winslow Homer, at the National Gallery of Art, New York City, 1880 – photo by Napoleon Sarony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Winslow
Image 2: The Gulf Stream, 1899<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Winslow
Image 3: Northeaster, 1895, reworked by 1901<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Image 4: The Life Line, 1884<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Research:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Winslow Homer was born in Boston in 1836 and became known for his marine subjects as a landscape printer and printmaker.\u00a0 He is a self-trained artist who started off working as a commercial printmaker.\u00a0 Homer painted anecdotal Civil War paintings in 1863, but his work towards 1865 actually showed understanding of the war’s impact.\u00a0 Throughout the 1870s he indulged in artistic experimentation and created a wide variety of works.\u00a0 Homer was interested in serial imagery, incorporating outdoor light, simple forms, and loose brushwork.\u00a0 He mastered oil and watercolour painting.\u00a0 By the 1880s, Homer’s art brought a deeper level of intensity through observation of English people.\u00a0 He took inspiration from his time in solitude for his paintings.\u00a0 His later works concentrated on the sea, and were dynamically composed to capture the appearance and emotion of the water.\u00a0 The skillful brushwork, depth of feeling, and subtlety of modernist abstraction make these sea paintings so appreciated and valuable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image 5: Canoe in the Rapids, 1897<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Opinion:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I find Winslow Homer\u2019s paintings thoughtful and stylistic.\u00a0 The subtle depth and detail he portrays brings a certain beauty to his pieces.\u00a0 In my opinion, his watercolour painting, \u201cCanoe in the Rapids,\u201d is a great example of his ability to express the movement and realism of water.\u00a0 I really like the style of the water, and the different values Homer uses to represent the reflections.\u00a0 He\u2019s even able to illustrate the foam and water spray of the crashing waves.\u00a0 I also like this painting because it demonstrates aerial perspective (the detailed foreground contracts with the further layers of background becoming more faint), which I just practiced in my gouache painting.\u00a0 My favourite characteristic of this piece is the colour in the water, as the warm accents give a sense unification to the scene.\u00a0 His watercolour paintings inspire me to paint more with the medium, and experiment more with water depictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sources<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Metmuseum.org<\/em>, www.metmuseum.org\/toah\/hd\/homr\/hd_homr.htm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metmuseum.org<\/em>, www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/11122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNational Gallery of Art.\u201d\u00a0Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art<\/em>, www.nga.gov\/features\/slideshows\/winslow-homer-in-the-national-gallery-of-art.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWinslow Homer.\u201d\u00a0Winslow Homer – The Complete Works<\/em>, www.winslow-homer.com\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWinslow Homer Artworks & Famous Paintings.\u201d\u00a0The Art Story<\/em>, www.theartstory.org\/artist\/homer-winslow\/artworks\/.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image credit<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Image 1: \u00a0https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/winslow-homer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image 2: https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/11122<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image 3: https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/11130<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image 4: https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-winslow-homer-greatest-american-painter-19th-century<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image 5: https:\/\/www.wikiart.org\/en\/winslow-homer\/canoe-in-the-rapids<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) Research: Winslow Homer was born in Boston in 1836 and became known for his marine subjects as a landscape printer and printmaker.\u00a0 He is a self-trained artist who started off working as a commercial printmaker.\u00a0 Homer painted anecdotal Civil War paintings in 1863, but his work towards 1865 actually showed understanding of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11581,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/claricemah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}