Portrait of an American Family

women. I grew up living in the American Dream, I was raised a financial stable middle class household with one older brother and a mother and father who loved me and still love me. Based on the variety of personality theories, many focus on the idea that childhood sets the tone on the majority of your identity. However, thinking back to when I was younger, the paternal figures in my life were not as significant as the maternal, which I plan to represent with old family photos of the male figures digitally

Edward Sheriff Curtis, was a famous photographer and the creator of one of the most renowned publications on the subject of North American Indian culture. His massive collection of photographs, illustrations, and writings become a 20 volume encyclopedia covering over 80 different tribes entitled “The North American Indian”. Not simply a great photographer and ethnographer but a man with enough compassion and foresight to recognize that here was a once proud and free people whose traditions and

Wisconsin. His nationality is Caucasian American and his occupation a Photographer. He grew up near Cordova, Minnesota where Johnson Curtis worked as a preacher for United Brethren Church. As a boy Edward often accompanied his father on canoe trips to visit members of the congregation. His experience camping outdoors with his father helped prepare him for the extensive field work he would do later in his career. In the summer of 1900, Curtis first encountered American Indian culture in a state relatively

making an impact on the creation of the American colonies. By the late 18th century, New England’s gender roles had tightened on the coattails of both the Great Awakening, which promoted religious structure and hierarchy, and the further development of the American colonies into a more successful society. Although the opposite may be argued, including more women becoming educated and having a more important role at home, such as in will and testaments, these portraits clearly demonstrate that gender roles

from Europe trained in the academic tradition and familiar with new artistic styles, provided Eakins with an unusually wide-ranging art education for an American artist of his day.      When Eakins arrived in Paris in 1866 to continue his art studies, he was in the vanguard of young artists who would revolutionize American art over the next two decades, breaking away from the literalism of Hudson River School

Continental Army during the American Revolution, crossing the Delaware River with his men on Christmas night, 1776 in order to surprise attack the Hessians at Trenton. Leutze’s portrait reflects some of the ideals represented by Thomas Jefferson, as well enlightenment thinkers John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau and perfectly demonstrates the role the American Revolution played in the shift from the medieval period into the early modern period. Firstly, Leutze 's portrait illustrates Washington’s

similarities and differences in their lives and their perspectives. Both Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso are known for their self portraits. Van Gogh painted over 30 portraits of himself within three years; he could not afford to pay models, so he purchased a mirror suitable for the creating self-portraits. He used introspective methods while creating his self-portraits to

personality theory to explain the art therapy process (Malchiodi, 2004). Elinor Ulman contributed to art therapy through her writing. Hanna Kwiatkowska’s psychiatric experience and research lead to the development of Family Art Therapy Evaluation which became the foundation for working with families through art (Robb, 2012). Art therapy is becoming a more frequently utilized intervention among clinicians. Art therapy intervention addresses; post traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, autism, trauma

realness and vivacity of life. The similarities between Peale and his American contemporaries can be seen when they are compared to him. The well known Neo-classicist artist, Charles Peale through all of his trades was a masterful craftsman and artist. Fully skilled in many fields Charles Peale was known as an American Leonardo. Living from 1741-1827

Abstract Early childhood, failed career paths and art as a profession. Vincent van Gogh was born in a small village in Holland on March 30, 1853. This date is significant as van Gogh’s dead brother was born exactly one year before him. His parents could not deal with the trauma of losing their first son, as a result this left a lasting impression on the second Vincent. Van Gogh’s older sister, described his adolescence as “intensely serious and uncommunicative...he was a stranger to himself” (Butterfield