Sarah Cooper's Liberty Leading The People

According to the painting in document 4 it shows a picture of the British guard firing at the American colonists. The Sons of Liberty were a group of patriots that helped advertise the Boston Massacre. The Boston Massacre killed many people because of the British

The painting depicts one of the most decisive victories of the American Revolution. Prior to the battle American morale was very low, even Washington was becoming doubtful. The continental army was forced out of New York and pushed across most of New Jersey on a desperate retreat induced by many British victories. The British troops that occupied the small town of Trenton were convinced that American morale was much too broken for any sort of attack… Washington had other plans. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

The science of oil painting came to it's full fruition in the nineteenth century. The palette now included dazzling colors which could electrify a painting. First a student of Cabanel's and later influenced by Mariano Fortuny y Marshal, Regnault was one of the rising stars of the Romantic movement. He lived a passionate life, traveling to the Middle East even though he was broke, hanging out in Spain as it rose up against Queen Isabella the Second, he loved excitement and adventure.

The painting depicts one of the most decisive victories of the American Revolution. Prior to the battle American morale was very low, even Washington was becoming doubtful. The continental army was forced out of New York and pushed across most of New Jersey on a desperate retreat induced by many British victories. The British troops that occupied the small town of Trenton were convinced that American morale was much too broken for any sort of attack… Washington had other plans. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)

In this painting there is the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. The committee is made up of John Adams, Roger Sherman, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. John Hancock, was the President of the Continental Congress. This painting has portraits of 42 of the 56 signers and 5 other patriots. All the portraits of the individuals in this room were paint from life meaning everyone sat there until the painting was done.

This painting by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze illustrates the crossing of the Delaware River, lead by General Washington, with his soldiers from the continental army. Even though this painting was painted years after the war of independence, it was a time period when art was booming in the Americas, and it captures everyone’s emotions and details clearly in the painting.

The Surrender at Yorktown was a pivotal moment in the freedom of The United States, and was the creation of the identity and nationality known as American. America was built on freedom which means in turn, so are Americans. The United States today continues to fight for freedom; from all sorts of groups of people. In the painting, these people seem to be from the Middle East.

The scenery seems to be exactly like that of a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. The art shows an extended family of parents, grandparents and children sitting around a table for a meal. An elderly woman in apron-which I assume is grandma-is placing a huge juicy looking turkey at the center of the table. There are also fruits and other small dishes on the table. Grandpa is on his feet at the end of the table staring at the juicy turkey. The family members are on either side of the table and speaking happily. There is also a gentleman whose gaze is directed at the viewer and the dining table also extends beyond the image. There are also two important texts in the image. On the top of the painting is the text “ours to fight for” and at the bottom is the title of the painting “Freedom from

Many attribute the evolution of the French revolution as the catalyst for redirection of the style of artwork from Baroque and Rococo to Neoclassical and Romanticism. Two leading masterpieces that support this aspect are respectively: Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, (c. 1784) and Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, (c. 1830). As commented in Essential Humanities (2016), the French revolution “in all its heroic glory and grisly destruction” (par. 10) is masterfully portrayed in Delacroix 's personification of liberty. In addition, the summons for commitment to the cause of freedom is classically rendered in David 's vow of victory or death. Within this essay both of these paintings are examined in regards to their connection to the French revolution.

“Comparison of the Arts” by Leonardo da Vinci compares several different art forms, mainly sculpture and writing, in a unique and intriguing way. It was very interesting that Da Vinci chose painting as his most prized art. In his time, he was an affluent producer of many types of invention, scientific research, writings and paintings. Yet, he has such passion for painting that every other kind of art that he was involved in seemed to pale in comparison to the emotion he felt and portrayed while painting. I personally felt persuaded to also love painting at a higher level than I had before. Leonardo da Vinci is one of my favorite historical figures mainly because of his scientific influence and inventions but after seeing his own passion I felt a renewed sense of wonder at the ability humans must have the ability to see the world around them and recreate it in their own light.

The painting depicts real people doing everyday things, like studying. Classical Antiquity was greatly displayed through another painting it depicts a normal person holding a balance. In the Middle Ages this would have been frowned upon because they discouraged the making of realistic paintings (Follett software). Realistic paintings would not have been introduced to the Renaissance without the humanists studying classical antiquity.

For example of Neoclassicism which happened in opposition to Rococo. The arts started to aim for the political issue. “With the revolution, French painting resumed its moral and political purpose and embraced the style known as neoclassicism. (National Gallery of Art, n.d.)” For another example, “Romantic art express the artist’s persona directly with man and nature, and does not solely reason but also emotion and instinct.” (McCoy, n.d.) Liberty Leading the People painted by Eugène Delacroix is very typical Romantic art. This oil painting was drawn about the French Revolution, especially freedom in France. In the past, this kind of idea or thought never allowed because the art was only used for the religious purpose.

In the center of the painting is Plato on the left and Aristotle on the right. These two are showing the two parts within philosophy, Timaeus and Ethics. The other philosophers on the sides are ‘corresponding to the separate schools of thought within the two major divisions, each carrying on the philosophical arguments for which they were famous (Fleming, 304). Plato: (428-c. 347 BC) was a Greek philosopher and one of the most creative and influential thinkers in Western philosophy. Plato founded the Academy in Athens, the institution often described as the first European

Historian Edmund Morgan wrote that "the rise of liberty and equality in America was accompanied by slavery" (5). Although it may sound absurd now, he spoke from the observations of the time he lived in. The 19th century was a time of development and new inventions in the United States. The American industry was just beginning to blossom, the economy was rising due to plantations in the south, and the demand for free labor was increasing. According to Census, in 1860 there were approximately 4 million slaves living in the United States, nearly all in the south(3,4). The slaves worked anywhere from the fields to inside households. Unlike other impoverished citizens in the community, the majority of the slaves never had a chance at freedom; it was lifelong bondage. In order to understand slavery better I am going to look at a few things. My main idea is to look at daily life, however daily life was different for slaves depending on if they were men or women, what kind of work they did, or even where they were working

He tended to explore the darker aspects of life and death in his paintings. Rebelling against conventional ideas- divine intervention, Virgin Mary, and death- he came to create his own style, forcing civilization ahead, and forcing others to follow his path. His paintings show pleading through man's direct knowledge of God (Cunningham and Reich 1640). By revolting against the classical traditions, he created his own style, which other artists wished to portray also. Thus, he created a forward movement in the fashion of art and architecture.