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Thomas Eakins
American Realist Painter, 1844-1916.
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 ?C June 25, 1916) was a realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some forty years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences, medicine, and clergy. Taken en masse, the portraits offer an overview of the intellectual life of Philadelphia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; individually, they are incisive depictions of thinking persons. As well, Eakins produced a number of large paintings which brought the portrait out of the drawing room and into the offices, streets, parks, rivers, arenas, and surgical amphitheaters of his city. These active outdoor venues allowed him to paint the subject which most inspired him: the nude or lightly clad figure in motion. In the process he could model the forms of the body in full sunlight, and create images of deep space utilizing his studies in perspective.
No less important in Eakins' life was his work as a teacher. As an instructor he was a highly influential presence in American art. The difficulties which beset him as an artist seeking to paint the portrait and figure realistically were paralleled and even amplified in his career as an educator, where behavioral and sexual scandals truncated his success and damaged his reputation.
Eakins also took a keen interest in the new technologies of motion photography, a field in which he is now seen as an innovator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little by way of official recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American art".
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Painting ID:: 56575
fairman rogers fyrspann
mk248 fyrspanners benpositionadnade eakins ut efter muybridges serie bastfotogrer som ban agde. eakins mecenat, fairman rogers blev fortjust ocb inbjod muybidge att balla nagra gastforelasningar i pbiladelpbia. efterat slot university of pennsylvania avtal med muybridge om att ban skulle fortsatta sin verksambet dar.
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Painting ID:: 56576
professor agnews klinik
mk248 denna valdiga malning gav de medicinstuderande vid pennsylvania university bade ett portatt av ferad profeddor, som snart skulle ga i pension, ocb av dem sjalva som publiken i operationssalen, men amnet, mastektomi, ansags inte trevligt for damer att se pa ocb fick inte cisas pa konstakademins utstakkning. verket fortsatter att vacba debatt, tramst pa grund av de sexuella implionerna som, enligt somligas asikter,fortangs om man enbart accepterar det som en dok umentaion av de moderna medicinska metoderna for nar kos antiseptik.
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Painting ID:: 56950
Gross doctor's clinical course
mk250 Year in 1875. Oil on canvas, 243.8 x 198.1 cm. Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.
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Painting ID:: 58721
Max Schmitt in a single scull
Max Schmitt in a single scull (1871), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Painting ID:: 58722
The Gross Clinic
The Gross Clinic. According to one prescient reviewer in 1876: This portrait of Dr. Gross is a great work--we know of nothing greater that has ever been executed in America.
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Thomas Eakins
American Realist Painter, 1844-1916.
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (July 25, 1844 ?C June 25, 1916) was a realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history.
For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some forty years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia. He painted several hundred portraits, usually of friends, family members, or prominent people in the arts, sciences, medicine, and clergy. Taken en masse, the portraits offer an overview of the intellectual life of Philadelphia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; individually, they are incisive depictions of thinking persons. As well, Eakins produced a number of large paintings which brought the portrait out of the drawing room and into the offices, streets, parks, rivers, arenas, and surgical amphitheaters of his city. These active outdoor venues allowed him to paint the subject which most inspired him: the nude or lightly clad figure in motion. In the process he could model the forms of the body in full sunlight, and create images of deep space utilizing his studies in perspective.
No less important in Eakins' life was his work as a teacher. As an instructor he was a highly influential presence in American art. The difficulties which beset him as an artist seeking to paint the portrait and figure realistically were paralleled and even amplified in his career as an educator, where behavioral and sexual scandals truncated his success and damaged his reputation.
Eakins also took a keen interest in the new technologies of motion photography, a field in which he is now seen as an innovator. Eakins was a controversial figure whose work received little by way of official recognition during his lifetime. Since his death, he has been celebrated by American art historians as "the strongest, most profound realist in nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century American art".
. Related Artists to Thomas Eakins: | Giotto | John Liston Byam Shaw | Mihaly Zichy | Johann Georg Meyer | FLORIGERIO, Sebastiano |
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