Tom Thomson History

He was one of the most famous artists and many writers went to him to create compelling works

Jacob Lawrence, an African American artist, produces two best-known collections like the Migration Series and War Series. Showing in the website, fourteen over sixteen panels are the War Series. Jacob’s War Series described his experiences that he joined the gallery during World War II. Jacob Lawrence painted the War Series when he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1964. Drawing the outline of an object and filling in some uniform color, he was exposing the signified of situation and people’s feeling. War Series: The Letter is an art works I like the best. The picture shows a letter on a black table and a man who presses the black table by his hands. The man is lower his head. I can feel that after he reads the letter, he is very sad. Perhaps,

What was so special about these men? One might ask, “What did this group accomplish?” These men accomplished many things in their lifetime; however we will look at a few of their biggest achievements and why they are so important to American history.

He started studying at the Royal Academy in London and married Esther Kenworthy in 1883 then moved to St. John’s Wood. They lived in a purpose built artistic colony .”Early in his career his works appeared similar to the the works of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema” and he painted many distinctive painting and was influenced by many talented artist before him. He produced over 200 paintings during his lifetime including “The Lady of Shalott,” “Boreas,” and,“The Crystal Ball.” “ He painted many excellent portraits of women”. His paintings were rich for their color, and was neglected through most of the 20th century. He produced works of mythological and literary themes through the 1890s and 1900s. He taught at St. John’s Wood art school between 1892 and 1913. He left no diaries or journals, and died of cancer in 1917.

“Mrs. Pontellier had brought her sketching materials, which she sometimes dabbled with in an unprofessional way. She liked the dabbling. She felt in it a satisfaction of a kind which no other employment afforded her” (40).

They were talented artists joined together and formed a group. They were inspired by the Canadian landscape and they painted many paintings of Canadian landscapes like nature, rivers, lakes, open land, etc. They spent most of their time in northern Canada.

Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. Macdonald and F.H. Varley” (Varley, 2013, P.2). They met in Toronto between the times of 1911 and 1913 except for Harris who was rich and made his fortune doing commercial art. This was set to be the beginning of marvellous painting of the Canadian landscape that displayed our culture that has yet to be acknowledged by the masses (Varley, 2013).

John William Waterhouse was born in Rome, Italy in 1849. He painted figurative and narrative pictures primarily in oil. He was interested and found inspiration in stories and legends from British literature and Classical mythology. His

Upon arrival at the MacLaren exhibition center in Barrie Ontario, I was very surprised to be surrounded unusual art that have been all created by Canadian artists. Their was a wooden granary on the floor resembling world war 2 and and some unique maps that were written in words. Many of their painting and sculptures resembled to the history of Canada going back towards the first nations and both world wars. The MacLaren Art Centre has been made to honour Maurice MacLaren, a famous artist who bequest Throughout looking at every piece, you could see the messages they portray to the audience and how much of impact it has within our canadian history. Approaching an interesting piece, it was Bison skulls skillfully fabricated together by exhaust parts, stacked high like a mountain.

Andrew had quite a vivid memory and a fantastic imagination that led to a great fascination for art. His father recognized an obvious raw talent that had to be nurtured. While his father was teaching him the basics of traditional academic drawing Andrew began painting watercolor studies of the rocky coast and the sea in Port Clyde Maine.

The University Museum, here on Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus, is currently displaying “Gilded age to Great War: Milton Bancroft and His Art.” I was very impressed by the beauty and great diversity of his art, which had clear objectives and not abstract or hard to understand. It clearly resembles the era the Bancroft lived in. The museum had more than 100 pieces of his work, varying in age from 1896-1943. The history of the Bancroft art is very interesting, especially for our class, because he lived through both World Wars. He was married to Margaret Moore in June of 1893 He studied artwork in Paris for many years, and his first of three children was born in September of 1896. The family returned to New York City in May of 1989 where

Also, he attended the Art Center College of Design in California. When Rodrigue returned back home in the late 1960s he was known for his creativity in the Cajun arts.                 This painting is called Landing of the Rodrigue Brothers it was created

Robert Kroetsch’s “Meditation on Tom Thomson” is about the death of Tom Thomson, as well as some of the beautiful paintings that he has created. The poem is written in a serious and formal tone. The poem is embracing elegy by letting the readers understand how Tom Thomson died but then also subverts it by giving the poem a more gratified perspective rather than a gloomy read. This has a good effect on the poem because the poem is about the death of a person, but not only is Kroetsch talking about the death of Tom, but also the astonishing paintings and what he loved most about them. Subverting these conventions are important because without them the poem would be entirely different, and would be read differently than intended.

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was one of the most outstanding American illustrators of the early 20th century. Leyendecker was actually born in Montabaur, Germany; however, the Leyendecker family immigrated to Chicago, Illinois in 1882. He took class at Vanderpoel at the Chicago Art Institute, and later attended the Academie Julian in Paris, where he was introduced to the art of Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret, and also Alphonse Mucha, a leader in the French Art Nouveau movement. Once he returned, with a large amount of experience, Leyendecker had no difficulty in achieving high pay for his cover designs and advertising illustrations for the leading publications including The Saturday Evening Post. In 1899, his

John Everett Millais and his colleagues were famously known for painting items sourced from the modern world and literature while at the same time utilizing traditional attires. These artists carried out their work directly from nature. Their role model was John Ruskin who inspired artists to go to nature and work wholeheartedly. John Everett Millais and his colleagues used pure color and defined structures. They focused primarily on the truth and reality.