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Lewis Floyd Essay

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Lewis Vincent Floyd, was born in Norway in 1843. He worked with his dad, Markus Floyd, as a bricklayer; he built buildings. Lewis, found great pleasure in how the finished product looked. He enjoyed starting from nothing and ending with something incredible. Lewis knew since he was younger he wanted to be an artist. Although, he knew it would never happened. People from Norway never left Norway, and no one in Norway painted. So, each night him and his dad came home from work to his mother, Idus, and his sister,Astrid. They cooked dinner and all ate together, talking about their day. Day to day the Floyd family did the same thing. Until, one day Lewis stayed home to watch his sister, Since Markus and Ida had to go down to pay their taxes. After what seemed like countless hours of looking …show more content…

Lewis had developed neurosis; a mental illness. His came from the loss of his family and the amount of stress that was put on him at such a young age. At the age of twenty-two he moved to Paris to learn to paint. His dream was coming true, a dream he thought was impossible to reach.
He began his career touring all over paris, jotting down ideas. The first night of his arrival was gloomy and stormy. The illuminated lighting bolts cut cleanly through the somber sky. This gave Lewis is first idea of what to paint. He stayed up all night working on his soon to become master piece. The painting showed his exact feelings. Pain, depression, anxiety. The swirled, dark, mournful sky Lewis painted was filled with such detail you could look at the painting hundreds of time and still notice things you did not see the time before. Lewis knew then that he was going to become an incredible artist.
As the years went by he began to paint more and more. His artistic skills improved greatly and exceptional surpassing his (orignal) understing that what he thought he would become. Before he knew it muesums were taking his work. He was becoming the artist

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