Paul Revere: A Folk Tale Hero

Paul Revere is an extremely important folk tale hero in history. His story is that he supposedly alerted the guards of Lexington that the British were coming. This was all taking place during the Boston tea party. The painting of Paul Revere was created and painted by John Copley. He was a painter with amazing talent that created an extremely realistic painting of the ever so famous Paul Revere. He used oil paints and got everything down to the finest detail. An example of this would be the eyes. The eyes are extremely realistic especially for that place in time. The face is extremely detailed along with the hair. It has a baroque feeling in that the way the portrait was made and the face of Paul Revere. The master who made this painting put
long pain staking hours in to complete this amazing piece of art. He was a master of his trade and he does a very good job doing what he does. The skin on the painting looks very realistic and unique. It’s almost like he is too perfect in this painting. The different art styles are very unique and show different styles that you can use when you make a painting of that stature. The painting has pain staking detail that other painters would envy for that time period. The most amazing thing about the picture is how he looks just like a real person. There is no animation it looks all real.