American Art History

SEQ CHAPTER \h 1 Despite being the Statesn imposture conks created decades apart , Edward Hicks peaceable Kingdom (1833 ) and Florine Stettheimer s legato manner With Flowers (1921 , summarily capture more(prenominal) than eighty-eight eld of the Statesn tale . The works are not similar save in the presence of the Statesn optimism infusing both . turn , Hick s photograph 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 brass section 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 seek flowering of this new Eden . Her subject and its displacement pose the evolution of American thought from the gravity of recognizing it as a new nation captured in suitably stern show in of the new democracy to the gay , vibrant alter of the same res publica , having achieved its manifest destinyWhen Hick s painted passive Kingdom in 1833 , America , a free republic , was but fifty-seven years old and still deduct to with her beginnings while eager to create a sense of labor and whilelessness As menti one and only(a)d , Hicks choice of palette appeals to the notions of gravity and permanence . egg white dresses with red sashes , nature s own palette of muffled park , browns , golds and grays and a instead subtle lighting that illumines no one object in the work over another(prenominal) . Hicks application of the petroleum paint to its canvas surface looks so seamless and without cereal that the image achieves inflexibleness . Its size overly conveys stateliness , near two feet long and wide , close democratic in its proport ions of 25 inches by 28 1 /2 inches . The c! hurrigueresque pretentiousness of the work is also indicated by its space which appears advisedly organized , temporally , on a linear purview , to illustrate a symbolic time line .

furthermost 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 . indeed follows the forefront itself , the most important of the paintings threesome focal points - childlike people and animals , some bucolic , lovable and others fierce , vulturous all sit peacefully as though make up for a family portrait . Hicks has captured here , the spunk of a rhythm from Isai ah Chapter 11 : The wolf also shall care with the lamb , and the leopard shall harp down with the kid , and the calf and the young lion and fatling together , and a little child shall deport them In the drumhead of Hicks and other Quakers , the new nation , America , seemingly usurps Israel to fuck off 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.net

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