Compare and Contrast : Howard Pyle and Thomas Moran Howard Pyle is one of the must popular illustrator, author and teacher in America at 19th century. He was born in 1853 in Wilmington, he was sent to an art school by his father when he was 16, he went to New York at the age of 23 to start his career of illustration. On 1880’s Pyle published The Merry Adventures of Robin,Pepper and Salt and Hood and Otto of the Silver Hand , he also illustrated the pictures for those books which became his representative works. Pyle painted The Buccaneer in oil in 1905, the way he depicts the pirate became the most symbolic and recognizable image of pirate, it influenced a great number of illustrators, directors and artists when they try to describe a pirate figure, even the figure of Jack Sparrow in the movie Pirates of the …show more content…
Caribbean used Pyle’s The Buccaneer as a reference. Pyle is not only a illustrator and storyteller but also a great teacher.
He founded his own art school in 1900, he teaches his student the way he creates illustrations and his Stylistic Solutions, design the gesture of a composition, use a dominant movement to show the gesture of the composition, then is use big shape of mass to organize different value group, and slowly built form and detail on the top of those masses. He also uses a lot of triangular shape to compose his image, because a triangle have a direction and always point somewhere. Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker who was born in February 12, 1837. Thomas was a painter who focused on american landscape, specially on Yellowstone National Park. Thomas started his career of artist as an apprentice in a wood-engraving firm in Philadelphia when he was a teenager, but he soon find wood-engraving is too boring, and he changed his interest to painting landscape. Under the influence of the British landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, he produced lots of landscape watercolors, which we can clearly see from the saturated and bright color using of his oil
paintings. When comparing Howard Pyle’s work and Thomas Moran’s, The first difference that people can recognize is their color, Pyle’s color using is desaturated color, almost like a earthly tone all over the place, but Tomas would like to use strong yellow and blue to crate temperature contras and a almost dramatic mood. Pyle always tell his students that a good illustration has to be recognized and read in no more than three value and in a thumbnail size, which means the audience are able to know that subject is on the image very easily even from faraway, He obviously pays more attention to the design and composition. Thomas Moran, on another hand, was influenced by J.M.W.T. very much, he likes to depict the mood and atmosphere of a view, almost like a impressionism painter. Secondly, the subject matter is a big difference between those two artists, Howard Pyle’s work is all about storytelling, because the fact he is also an author, he illustrates his books. There are lots of imagination figures involved in his work, like the Flying Dutchman. Thomas Moran never considered imagination as an important element of his work, In 1871 the director of the United States Geological Survey invited Moran to join his expedition team into the Yellowstone region, During the trip, Thomas recorded a number of different sites of the Yellowstone region, and later produced his major series of Yellowstone oil painting to show people how magnificent the view is in Yellowstone. Because of these paintings, the government soon established the Yellowstone National park as the first national park in United States. In conclusion, Howard Pyle and Thomas Moran are both every important illustrators and painters in the 19th century United States, however, their style and decision they make for their subject matter are widely different, It shows a great range of illustration in this golden era in America.
In the era where Thomas Cole first established the Hudson River School, other artist that is not from the United State such as John Constable, has the same taste in nature and outdoors. John Constable who is from England, created many painting from the surrounding area from his backyard to the countryside. For Cole’s painting, his work of art has been throughout the Hudson River, therefore, his painting consist of vast amount of forest, river, and mountains. He also travels in many locations in America and even done some painting in Europe. Both painter love nature, for this example, landscape will be the primary focus.
He got a lot of his inspiration from his mother. She loved painting with water colors and making
Thomas Cole was “America's leading landscape painter during the first half of the nineteenth century...” (Thomas Cole). He lived from 1801 to 1848. He was born in England, and in eighteen moved to America with his family before this he “... served as an engraver's assistant and as an apprentice to a designer of calico prints.” He began drawing nature from nature in eighteen twenty-three and started with trees and branches to become the great landscape painter he is recorded as today. Worthington Whittredge was born in 1820, and lived until 1910. He was born and lived in America his entire life. He was part of the Hudson River School. He was “...a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford.” ( Thomas Worthington)He traveled much of his life and mastered landscape painting.
Originally, from Spain, Juan Gris moved to Paris in 1906. It was there where he learned and watched the progression of cubism. He met and lived next to innovators of this art form, Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Although he is not the pioneer of this art form, his first significant paintings appeared in 1910 and...
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. Born on February 24, 1836, in Boston, MA, Homer painted during the realism period. He is mostly known for; drawing, wood engraving, oil painting, and watercolor painting. Who was his teacher? Who were some of his subjects? What medium did he use? What major event in American history did Homer paint?
As Cole traveled the world, he came to see nature worthy of painting and wanted to share this love with others. After being born in Bolton-le-Moors, Lancaster, England, in 1801, in his early adulthood Thomas Cole immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1818. Soon after this he moved to Steubenville, Ohio but returned to Philadelphia in 1823 to paint landscapes and decorate Japan ware. After moving to New York in 1825, Cole began to receive recognition. Three landscapes were painted by Cole and purchased by John Trumbull, Asher Durand and William Dunlap. Cole was now established as a landscape painter and could support himself. Cole traveled to Europe to study nature and the outdoors in England, Paris, Italy, Florence and Rome. Coming back to New York in 1832 Cole settled down and married Maria Barton. Teaching himself through his exploration of nature, Thomas Cole established landscape painting as an accepted art form. While his paintings often reflected religious “high moral tones,” he also had an incredible reference for nature, sometimes depicting it as tranquil and other times as violent. Highly romanticizing ...
Thomas Cole was born on February 1, 1801 in Bolton, Lancashire, England. Due to financial problems his family endured, Cole, at the ripe old age of just fourteen, had to find work to assist with the family needs. He entered the work force as a textile printer and wood engraver in Philadelphia. In 1819, Cole returned to Ohio where his parents resided. Here, a portrait painter by the name of Stein, would become Cole’s primary teaching vehicle and inspiration for his oil techniques we’ve come to be familiar with. During this time, Cole was extremely impressed by what he saw in the landscapes of the New World and how different they were from the small town of England from whence he hailed. Self taught, art came naturally to Cole.
Winslow Homer was late 19th and early 20th century American painter and printmaker. Homer worked in lithography, printmaking, oil, watercolors and several other media. He is most regarded today for his work in landscapes and marine subjects. A lot of his early work focused on rural life in his native New England. This is evident in one of his famous genre paintings currently on display in the St. Louis Art Museum titled The Country School.
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, England in 1837, Thomas was taken to the United States at the age of 7. (Ency. Bio. Vol. 11). He was educated in Philadelphia public schools for his elementary years and then indentured to a wood engraving firm in 1853-1856. (Am.Nat.Bio.Vol 15). He had three brothers who were artist, but he learned to paint from his brother Edward Moran. He did do some watercolors during his apprentictionship and in 1856, he painted his first oil painting titled, Among the Ruins There He Lingered. (Vol.11). Moran still working closely with his brother became an informer student of Philadelphia marine artist James Hamilton. Hamilton may have introduced him to the work of J.M.W, turner and a belief in close study of nature in his foundation of panting. (Vol.15) Moran exhibited landscapes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine arts for the first time in 1856 and then later elected academician in 1861. He continued to exhibit there through 1905. (Vol.15). 1862 Thomas married Mary Nimmo who had always thought to be her husbands student. (Vol.15). The beginning of his life had just started and didn't know that he would accomplish so many feats with his artwork of nature.
involved with other artists and interested in their work. He influenced and trained artists in his workshop. Some of his students included Donatello, Paulo Uccello, Michelozzo, and Benozzo Gozzoli. Many artists took notice of his style. His works show a development toward naturalistic movement, volume, perspective, and greater.
He attended Yale University in the early 1920's, but never completed his formal education there. In 1925 he entered studies at the Art Students League in New York City where he started painting under the instruction of Max Weber. Although he studied under Max Weber, he still considered himself as basically a self-taught painter. In the 1930's and 1940's he went through phases influenced by Expressionism and Surrealism, but from about 1947 he began to develop his own distinctive style for which he is known for today. Critics labeled Mark Rothko as an Abstract Expressionist, but defiantly he argued this association by his peers, because he did not want to be known for a certain style.
Howard Pyle was born on March 5 1853 in Wilmington, Del and died on November 9, 1911 on Florence. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Mr. Pyle was an “American illustrator, painter, and author, best known for the children’s books that he wrote and illustrated.”(Editors of EB). Paul Giambarba, writer of 100 Years of Illustration states that “Academics usually refer to Howard Pyle as one of the greatest illustrators of his time.”(Giambarba) and in his personal opinion “was the greatest and the best” (Giambarba) illustrator. Paul goes onto to state that “Pyle was not content to continue copying himself in the same old way as they did for the most part, and he was at least as prodigious, turning out two illustrations a week, or 3,300 published illustrations during a 35-year career. Included among these were almost 200 stories that he wrote as well as illustrated.”(Giambarba)
Both articles concern the highly contentious subject of the British strategic bombing campaign in Germany during the Second World War. This subject focuses around the historical debate that the British government knowingly targeted civilian cities in Germany, killing hundreds of thousands of non combatants while also gravely misinforming the British public as to the purpose and results of their strategic bombing campaigns. In the years after the war the debate had come to light due to the renewed interest in the strategic bombing campaign. The articles by Mark Connelly and Alex Bellamy are products of this renewed interest. This essay seeks to compare and contrast the articles on three grounds: the different methods hat each historian uses
reached the age of 14. At 18 he became more serious about his art and