John James Audubon Research Paper

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Paintings of a Bird’s Nature Science and art were never thought to have a connection between each other. Science was thought to approach life through the manner of facts while art’s approach was through the lens of the imagination. However, many scientists, such as John James Audubon, who was an ornithologist and painter, disprove that theory. Audubon was born Jean Rabins on a sugar plantation in 1785 Saint Domingue (currently Haiti) (Rhodes). His father, Jean Audubon, was a French naval officer at the time of the Napoleonic Wars and also a farmer (Rhodes). His mother, Jeanne Rabin, was a chambermaid who died several months after Jean Rabins was born (Rhodes). Due to the slavery issue, Jean Audubon remarried and moved back to France with his son who was renamed John Audubon (Rhodes). As the Reign of Terror and French Revolution approached, French citizens were in danger. In order to protect his son, he sent him to colonial America to escape the imprisonment his father and step-mother later faced (Rhodes). When Audubon arrived in New York in 1803 to become an American citizen, America was passing through the period of westward expansion because Cherokee Indians were being forced through west (Rhodes). Audubon, fascinated by their way of living, joined the Cherokee Indian life (Rhodes). Audubon adapted to their clothing, …show more content…

Other great works Audubon wrote or contributed to included Ornithological Biography, Or, An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America: Accompanied by Descriptions of the Objects Represented in the Work Entitled The Birds of America, and Interspersed with Delineations of American Scenery and Manners, The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories, A Synopsis of the Birds of North America, his second most successful

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