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WINSLOW HOMER an American Painter WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter Dr. Ufuk ÇETİN WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter Author: Ufuk Çetin ORCID (0000-0001-5102-8183) ISBN: 978-625-7729-02-4 E-ISBN: 978-625-7729-03-1 First Edition: September 2020 © 2020 Efe Akademi. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mecha- nical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher, except for brief passages quoted by a reviewer in a newspaper or a magazine. LIBRARY CATALOG ÇETİN, Ufuk Winslow Homer An American Painter First Edition, p. 71 , 135 x 195 mm. Keywords: 1. Painting, 2. American Painting Art, 3. .19th Century, 4. Landscape Painting, 5. Sea Painting. Graphic Design: İsa Burak GÜNGÖR ([email protected]) Cover Design: Duygu DÜNDAR ([email protected]) Certificate No: 43370 Printing House Certificate No: 43370 Efe Akademi Yayınevi Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Davutpaşa Kampüsiçi Esenler / İSTANBUL +90212 482 22 00 www.efeakademi.com Printing House: Ofis2005 Fotokopi ve Büro Makineleri San. Tic. Ltd. Şti. Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Davutpaşa Kampüsiçi Esenler / İSTANBUL +90212 483 13 13 www.ofis2005.com WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter This book was written by me for my respected Professor Dr. Engin Beksaç for all his researches and studies in all forms of art through great passion just a present. Dr. Ufuk Çetin 20.09.2020 3 Ufuk Çetin 4 WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................. 5 INTRODUCTION .......................................................... 11 HIS CHILDHOOD AND ARTISTIC CAREER ........ 18 SOME EXAMPLES FROM HIS PAINTINGS.......... 23 RESULT ............................................................................ 39 DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS ................................. 41 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................ 66 FOR FURTHER READING AND RESEARCHES .. 67 AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHY ............................................ 69 5 Ufuk Çetin 6 WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter Winslow Homer 7 Ufuk Çetin 8 WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it. -Winslow Homer- When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway. -Winslow Homer- You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors. -Winslow Homer- What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way. -Winslow Homer- 9 Ufuk Çetin 10 WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter One of the best of American painters, Winslow Homer is most popular for his watercolors and oil works of art of the ocean. He drew civil war paintings and drawings likewise.These compositions frequently have extraordinary sensational impact as a result of the manner in which show mankind's feebleness despite the merciless powers of nature. Homer is a distinguished American painter at the nineteenth century. The gigantic topics of his work are cemented through the reflective thoroughness of his printmaking, watercolor, and oil painting strategy. Moving to New York in 1859, he upheld himself with delineation compositions even as he began to set up his calling as a painter. During the 1880s, wanting isolation, he moved to Prout's Neck, ME, basing his studio there for the unwinding of his ways of life. Homer's works of art, for the most part his watercolors, may cross legitimately to significantly affect later American painters, comprehensive of Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper. His works are held in the assortments at Institute of Chicago, the Musée d'Orsay, the nation wide galleries in Washington, D.C. and the Metropolitan Museum of fine arts in New York. Winslow Homer (1836–1910) is revered through varied on the grounds that the simplest American painter during nineteenth century. Planned in Boston and cited in country Cambridge, he began his profession as a mechanical graphic artist, in Boston and subsequently in New York State, within 1859. 11 Ufuk Çetin In the nineteenth century the amount of inhabitants within the U.S became quickly. In 1860 the public was thirty one million. By 1900 it had been right around seventy six million. Outsiders from Europe crammed the U.S. seeking once a superior life. Varied people were tricked by the colonist Act of 1862. Pilgrims were offered a hundred and sixty sections of land of land free gave they consented to until it for an extended time. Chinese migration into the U.S was finished by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. American trade likewise blasted. Within the late nineteenth century the U.S was the fastest developing mechanical country on the earth. Before the century's over, it had outperformed kingdom within the creation of iron and steel. The American railroad organize to boot developed quickly. In 1850 there have been 9000 miles of railroads. By a 1900 there have been 190,000 miles. The first cross country railroad was worked in 1869. Soon there was a roaring refining industry in Pennsylvania. The principal line was worked in 1865. An increasing range of American citizens lived in urban communities. By 1900 right around 1/3 of them did. By then there have been in over way over forty urban communities with a public of more than 100.000.It wasn't till 1920 that the majority of American citizens lived in urban areas. Conditions within the mechanical urban communities were frightful. Varied people lived in packed ghettos. In the decades following the war, the U.S. developed as a contemporary goliath. Recent enterprises extended and various new ones, together with oil purification, steel manufacturing, and electrical force, developed. Railways extended primarily, transportation even remote items of the state into a national economy. 12 WINSLOW HOMER An American Painter Mechanical development modified American culture. It delivered another category of affluent industrialists and a prosperous white collar category. It likewise delivered a limitlessly extended hands on common laborers. The work power that created industrialisation potential was comprised of an enormous range of recently showed up outsiders and far larger quantities of vagrants from country zones. American culture clad to be a lot of differing than the other time in recent memory. Not all and sundry partook within the monetary success of this era. various laborers were often idle in any event a part of the year, and their wages were moderately low after they accomplished work. This circumstance drove different specialists to assist and be a part of worker's organizations. Within the interim, ranchers to boot confronted powerful things as innovation and increasing creation prompted a lot of competition and falling prices for ranch things. Powerful things on ranches drove varied kids to maneuver to the town trying to find higher openings for work. Americans planned throughout the decennary and decade would encounter large changes within the course of their lives. Some of those progressions took place thanks to a general innovative upheaval. Their important wellspring of sunshine, for example, would modification from candles to lamp fuel lights, and subsequently to electrical lights. They might see their transportation advance from strolling and strength to steam controlled trains, to electrical streetcars, to gas oxyacetylene vehicles. Naturally introduced to a general public whereby most far and away of people were related to business enterprise, they encountered a mechanical upset that deeply modified the manners within which a good several people worked and wherever they lived. They might encounter the relocation of an enormous range 13 Ufuk Çetin of people from rustic America to the country's quickly developing urban communities. In the interim American business enterprise unbroken on blasting. It had been helped by new innovation. Inventor created a mechanical harvester in 1834. Industrialist (1804-1886) notional the steel furrow in 1838. In 1854 the principal effective selfoverseeing windmill that altered course consequently to confront the breeze was created. In 1874 spiked metal was protected. A general classification for works of art created within the U.S. somewhere within the vary of 1800 and 1900. Whereas till 1820 American accomplishment was to a good extent subsidiary of European designs, Thomas Cole and therefore the river college would build up Associate in painting that featured the American scene, a topic that was later investigated and pervaded with subject topics by Albert Bierstadt throughout his movements through the American West. The believability of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer looked to die honest qualities with unobtrusively gallant footage of American life; Albert Pinkham Ryder and Henry Ossawa Tanner, then again, were less nationalistic, ofttimes saturating Biblical topic with a supernatural quality in their Symbolist vogue. Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, each notable for his or her cozy late nineteenth century footage, painted society subjects on the two sides of the Atlantic. throughout the same time, Timothy O'Sullivan created one in all a form varieties of narrative and scene photography, whereas socially roused Jacob Riis ready his concentration on New York town housing life. In engineering, the evangelist varieties of humanistic discipline and Neo Gothic were utilised within the development of landmarks within the early five hundredth of the century,
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