American Art History

SEQ CHAPTER h r 1 Despite being the Statesn art conks created decades apart , Edward Hicks peaceable Kingdom (1833 ) and Florine Stettheimer s legato manner With Flowers (1921 , summarily capture more than eighty-eight eld of American history . The works are not similar save in the presence of American optimism infusing both . turn , Hick s painting captures the promise of Isaiah Chapter 11 , Stettheimer s work hints at its fulfillmentThat is to say , viewed sequentially , with an eye toward which came first , Hick s work is viewable as the promising establishment of America . In keeping with Biblical imagery evoked by Hicks , even up the establishment of an Eden . Therefore , Stettheimer s work is either the necessitate sought flowering of this new Eden . Her subject and its displacement portray the evolution of American thought from the gravity of recognizing it as a new nation captured in suitably stern color in of the new democracy to the gay , vibrant colors of the same republic , having achieved its manifest destinyWhen Hick s painted Peaceable Kingdom in 1833 , America , a free republic , was but fifty-seven years old and still come to with her beginnings while eager to create a sense of constancy and whilelessness As mentioned , Hicks choice of palette appeals to the notions of gravity and permanence . White dresses with red sashes , nature s own palette of muffled greens , browns , golds and grays and a rather subtle lighting that illumines no one object in the work over another(prenominal) . Hicks application of the oil paint to its canvas surface looks so seamless and without texture that the image achieves inflexibleness . Its size overly conveys stateliness , nearly two feet long and wide , close democratic in its proportions of 25 inches by 28 1 /2 inches . The Baroque pretentiousness of the work is also indicated by its space which appears purposely organized , temporally , on a linear perspective , to illustrate a symbolic time line .

Furthest from the forefront of the painting are the ships which presumably brought the first Europeans to America . Closer to the forefront , preceding the ships , is a table of Pilgrims and Indians . Then follows the forefront itself , the most important of the paintings threesome focal points - childly people and animals , some bucolic , lovable and others fierce , predatory all sit peacefully as though posing for a family portrait . Hicks has captured here , the spunk of a verse from Isaiah Chapter 11 : The wolf also shall care with the lamb , and the leopard shall lie down with the kid , and the calf and the young lion and fatling together , and a little child shall deport them In the mind of Hicks and other Quakers , the new nation , America , seemingly usurps Israel to become the promised kingdom of DavidIn contrast , Strettheimer s Still Life With Flowers is much more light-hearted . It conveys a sense of utter gambol and relaxation . Her America is one focused inward onward from a rather grave Baroque imperialism towards a flamboyant Rococo domesticity . The hints of imperialistic desires seen in Hicks work are not...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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