Thomas Gainsborough Analysis
Prospects: word that has different meaning. It can indicates what is seen from a certain point of view. It could be a large view (synonymous: paronama). It can also indicates the viewer ranges of vision and also the action of looking at something. It raises questions about the identity of the viewer, the genre and the authority behind what you looking at.
Thomas Gainsborough – Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748), oil on canvas, 68,9x119,4 cm
He is 22 and she is 16 and she belongs to the landed gentry. Eye catching character of the painting because of the color of her dress (light blue and reflected in the sky). Gainsborough was influenced by Dutch painters, naturalistic paiting. It is a landscape painting and a portrait painting. At the time, it was …show more content…
The main theme of this painting is the civilization moving westward and the moving of the frontiers. The painting is devised in two parts: the storm moving away and because the prospect is seem from a top of a hill. There is a division with the use of light and darker color. It represents civilize America and it is also a pastoral landscape. It is recording the disappearance of wildness (blasted tree and the lively vegetation). It is questioning the way you build representation of the nature. The naturalization of economic processes. It’s a picture of the weather. Replace human processes by natural processes.
• Conventional Elsewheres
William Hodges – A Cascade in the Tuauru Valley (1775, oil on panel, 49.90 x 64.10 cm)
Picture of Tahiti
Captain Cook’s second voyage (1772-75): This was a long term expedition. On the boat, there were scientists, painters, people who will be able to remember the expedition. It is an example of something that became really common in the 18th century, the way of represented land that were discovered according to European convention. It’s a way of naturalizing the strangeness of these landscapes. Completely different from what we have in Europe. It’s a way of enforcing a vision colonization.
An instance of “pictorial colonization” (Mitchell)
J.A. Gilfillan – Native Council of War (1855), oil on canvas, 95.5 x 127 cm
Example of what he called pictorial
Thomas Gainsborough – Mr and Mrs Andrews (1748), oil on canvas, 68,9x119,4 cm
He is 22 and she is 16 and she belongs to the landed gentry. Eye catching character of the painting because of the color of her dress (light blue and reflected in the sky). Gainsborough was influenced by Dutch painters, naturalistic paiting. It is a landscape painting and a portrait painting. At the time, it was …show more content…
The main theme of this painting is the civilization moving westward and the moving of the frontiers. The painting is devised in two parts: the storm moving away and because the prospect is seem from a top of a hill. There is a division with the use of light and darker color. It represents civilize America and it is also a pastoral landscape. It is recording the disappearance of wildness (blasted tree and the lively vegetation). It is questioning the way you build representation of the nature. The naturalization of economic processes. It’s a picture of the weather. Replace human processes by natural processes.
• Conventional Elsewheres
William Hodges – A Cascade in the Tuauru Valley (1775, oil on panel, 49.90 x 64.10 cm)
Picture of Tahiti
Captain Cook’s second voyage (1772-75): This was a long term expedition. On the boat, there were scientists, painters, people who will be able to remember the expedition. It is an example of something that became really common in the 18th century, the way of represented land that were discovered according to European convention. It’s a way of naturalizing the strangeness of these landscapes. Completely different from what we have in Europe. It’s a way of enforcing a vision colonization.
An instance of “pictorial colonization” (Mitchell)
J.A. Gilfillan – Native Council of War (1855), oil on canvas, 95.5 x 127 cm
Example of what he called pictorial