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This paper describes the influence of photography on the portraits, landscapes, and pastorals created by American Realist artist Thomas Eakins. The paper describes the specific influences of photography on Eakins and photography as a source of his inspiration.

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"According to art critic and biographer Sylvan Schendler has suggested that with respect to the work of American Realist artist Thomas Eakins photography was an important source of .."

Tags:Thomas Eakins, photography, realism, art

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In this article, the writer provides an analysis of the influences that impacted the work of Philadelphia native Thomas Eakins, considered America's foremost realism painter.

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"Thomas Eakins is considered by art critics to be America's greatest realist painter. A native and lifelong resident of Philadelphia this analysis discusses how many of Eakins' works record the realities of urban contemporary life germane to the area with striking realism Eakins' education and training among realists in Europe influenced his own focus on photographic realism and the beauty of the nude human form. His teaching of anatomy at Pennsylvania Academy involved controversy because of this focus but his numerous works of athletic events nude males ..."

Tags:rowing, sailing, boxing, Schuykill River, nudity, vulgar, motion, form, anatomy, Pennsylvania Academy, realist, biography, artist, American

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A paper discussing Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt, along with some brief descriptions of selected works. Short biographies are given of both artists. The author mentions the style of each artists.

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"From the late 1860s to the late 1880s a French art movement flourished. Derived from Monet's painting Impression, this worldwide movement was called Impressionism. Impressionists painted mainly of modern-day subjects in the open air. They used a lot of bright colored paints (little drawing) and aimed to capture the effects of light. Two great American artists of this time were Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt. Thomas Eakins was born on July 25, 1844 in Philadelphia. His father was a writer from which he inherited a lot of talent. He also learned to love the outdoors from his father and his childhood. He was very outgoing and did exceptionally well in school. Eakins especially loved science and math, which he enjoyed using later in his career."

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"As a newly settled frontier area that shared in the culture of an older, dominant power, the American Colonies and, later, the United States of America expended a great deal of effort in defining themselves as a separate cultural entity. Perhaps it was not even until the United States had become a dominant power itself that America felt free of the shadows cast by its ancestors. A comparison of works by two American painters will give some idea of how the this process of self-definition worked. Benjamin West (1738-1820), the most successful American painter of the eighteenth century, was a friend of King George III and his official history painter. West was also a founder and the second President of the Royal Academy and had one of the most successful careers of any painter of his time. Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) worked in relative obscurity. He was a successful ..."

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" Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was one of the greatest American painters yet he met with little success during his lifetime. Eakins always believed that his life had little to do with his art. He approached his art from a scientific, realist perspective and held that everything the viewer needed was present on the canvas. But connections between Eakins' beliefs, the difficulties of his artistic career, and his private life are important keys to understanding his work. Three examples of typical Eakins subjects demonstrate how knowledge of his ideas and circumstances illuminates his work. His 1875 painting The Gross Clinic was a portrait of a celebrated surgeon that reflects not only Eakins' artistic influences but his ideas about heroism in American life. His Portrait of a Lady with a Setter Dog (1885) was a portrait of his wife Susan Eakins, painted shortly.."

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"Thomas Eakins painted Max Schmitt in a Single Scull in 1871. The painting is oil on canvas and measures 32 1/4" by 46 1/4". It is currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting shows Schmitt seated in a long, narrow rowing shell, or scull. The scull sits in the middle of a river, and is located at the center of the lower half of the painting. Schmitt looks back over his shoulder toward the viewer. Beyond Schmitt the river bank appears on either side of the painting, and is covered with trees that either have fall colors or have lost their leaves. Some houses are also visible on the bank. At the horizon an iron bridge crosses the river. On the river another rower is shown beyond Schmitt, pulling on the outspread oars of his scull. Closer to the bridge there is also a long, low, red boat with a few people seated in it. Under the bridge and beyond.."

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The paper examines Thomas Chippendale, an Englishman famous for developing a form of furniture that revolutionized society at the time and still has great import today. The paper relates that from his early beginnings as a wood worker through to his lucrative stores in London, Chippendale's designs were embraced in both England and overseas. The paper discusses how the Chippendale style involved a meshing and updating of styles of the time, including Rococo style and Chinese influences. The present paper examines Thomas Chippendale's personal background, his works and the social, political and economic events which aided his work.

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"The present paper examines Thomas Chippendale, an Englishman famous for developing a form of furniture that revolutionized society at the time and still has great import today. From his early beginnings as a wood worker through to his lucrative stores in London, Chippendale's designs were embraced in both England and overseas. The Chippendale style involved a meshing and updating of styles of the time, including Rococo style and Chinese influences. The present paper examines Thomas Chippendale's personal background, his works and the social, political and economic..."

Tags:thomas, chippendale, art

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Thomas More is a figure greatly revered both by historians and the religious world. This paper examines these things in light of his contributions to Christianity and the development of the Catholic Church during its most volatile period. It affirms More's convictions as "the king's good servant, but God's first".

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"History will remember Sir Thomas More as many things. He was a major renaissance figure and author and a successful businessman, diplomat and royal secretary. He was a close friend of King Henry VIII and a valued and trusted advisor. He was devoutly religious and fiercely loyal to the Catholic Church, at a time when the church was under great scrutiny. He was also a family man, with four children of his own and several, which he adopted. He was a man in transition, part modern, part medieval. In fact, much of his life was characterized by these conflicts. Most importantly, however, Thomas More was a Christian, martyred in 1535 and canonized Saint Thomas More by Pope Pius in 1935, more than 40 years later. He has been placed in the same boat as the great passive revolutionaries, like Jesus and Gandhi. At the unveiling of a statue dedicated to More, placed on the banks of the Thames in London, in 1969, the Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury said: "He believed that the Christian Church is a divine society wider than states and nations, and that duty to king yields place to duty to God." This belief in the church and God characterized More's life and motivated all his actions. However the time in which he lived and its humanistic tradition also influenced More to some degree and his career and works demonstrate how that influenced changed over time, as he deserts humanism to fully defend his church latter in life."

Tags:christianity, henry, reformation, religon, spirituality, thomas, viii

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Sir Thomas Malory lived an interesting life as an extortionist, rapist, etc. He wrote "Le Morte d'Arthur" while spending his time in prison from which he escaped. This paper recognizes the correlation between his writing and his lifestyle.

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"It is no accident that Sir Thomas Malory wrote about the life he lived. As a noble knight and landowner, he was more than fascinated with his own lifestyle. Overwhelmed by the events that occurred in his own era, Malory was not shy of trouble, and/or bravery. The story of King Arthur, Le Morte d'Arthur, was inspired from the very moments that unified his life. He grew up in a time period of castles, knights, feudalism and chivalry, which in turn makes for a brilliant tale of valiance and romance, all of which are included in the story. It is from this vast sea of expeditions and events in which Malory encountered and explored, that he conceived his story Le Morte d'Arthur."

Tags:arthur, king, knights, malory, morte, round, table, thomas

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The paper examines the lives, writings, and ideas of a number of these American authors, artists, and intellectuals from the span of American history. By discussing the ideas that they developed, it is possible to understand why their ideals, beautiful as though they may seem in retrospect, were not embraced more heartily by the whole of American society. The paper considers the works and ideals of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Eakins, Henry Adams, Henry James, Henry David Thoreau, and Florence King.

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"Authors and artists are not part of a group generally known for their pragmatism. Creating literature and art that will survive the historical moment requires the author to speak to human ideals that transcend the historical moment and the often-unfortunate political realities of those eras. Though some authors and artists have been fortunate enough to influence the development of society and infuse it with their ideals, this is not often the case. Nonetheless, by attempting to grasp even the failed..."

Tags:american, society, literature