When we think of the Civil War, we think it is possible to input places and actors: Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh; President Lincoln, General Lee, the Federation of Trade Unions. To art with the ongoing conflict in the North and South 1861-1865 associate seems unusual, but it is what the art of the Civil War and America, a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum has asked us to do.
See a photo gallery of "The Civil War and American Art"
Consider some of the greatest artists of the time were influenced by the war between the states. Winslow Homer and Albert Bierstadt, for example, are two American artists, has become known for his paintings of landscapes, some of which contained high symbolic allusions to war. 57 paintings and 18 photographs collection - places, landscapes by Homer, Bierstadt, and some of his contemporaries in the context to see this exposure on 75 stations. The Civil War and American Art also discusses the paintings of artists from the battlefield produced on both sides of the war; the harsh reality of shown in vintage photos of Antietam and Gettysburg massacre battle; and questions of slavery and reconstruction.
Winslow Homer and Albert Bierstadt
The most famous artists appear on the Civil War and American Art's Winslow Homer, who is represented in this exhibition with 13 paintings. Although the artist of the 19th century is known for his scenes of New England, especially painting, inspired by the coast of Maine known, Homer also spent time with soldiers of the Union, capturing the work and rest as they traveled to places the battle behind enemy lines. prisoners before the scene is a civilized Union Confederate soldiers under POWs. The sunny side, a portrait sitting of Black Hat stock, is another poignant work of Homer.
Also Bierstadt, show their paintings, bookends. His Guerrilla 1862 is complete, Union soldiers waiting for the prey of the Confederacy, while Yosemite Valley, California, a huge canvas, painted in 1865 shows the scenery of the West is known for beer city. Since the beginning of the war, a new beginning between the United States, Bierstadt images tell a story of how the works of art in their works.
Other Artists
In addition to Homer and Bierstadt, most of the paintings in the exhibition come from almost a dozen artists, including Sanford Robinson Gifford, Conrad Wise Chapman, Frederic Edwin Church, and Eastman Johnson.
Gifford Twilight in the Catskill Mountains, Bivouac of the Seventh Regiment, Arlington Heights, Virginia, and Fort Federal Hill at sunset, Baltimore, orange paintings are beautiful, referring to the burnt landscapes and the stresses that the current war is rabies.
Conrad Wise Chapman, the well-known artist in painting, during his time in the Confederate Army, carries scenes of everyday activity along the Charleston Harbor.
Church painted landscapes full of symbolism. As Bierstadt, the church is shown at the beginning and at the end of the show. Its small scale Our Banner in the Sky from 1861 is the Union Flag in the clouds orange and red sunset. Later means some of the great paintings of the church, as the rainy season in tropical rain a new dawn. However, there are concerns in many of the sights of the Church, especially in Cotopaxi, 1862 portrait of an eruption of the volcano in Ecuador, which symbolize the rage on the central issue of slavery as a "moral Volcano" by Frederick Douglass in a speech in year 1861.
While the church raised the issue of slavery through the landscape painting Eastman Johnson has created several memorable portraits of slave life. His life of blacks in the South from 1859 - two years before the start of the Civil War - is a frank comment mestizaje plantations A Walk for Freedom -. Fugitive Slave March 2, 1862, provides an escape from the slave heroic horse and leaves no doubt that Johnson is sympathetic to the anti-slavery cause. Johnson has some other remarkable life paintings of the Civil War, including the windy melancholy and Girl I Left Behind Me
Two other paintings report be seen in the Civil War and American Art Julian Scott A Confederate Solider and Thomas Moran Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia.
Civil War Photography
Eighteen vintage photographs are on show; Most of them are dark. The fascinating photographs by Alexander Gardner and Timothy H. O'Sullivan, the scenes of Antietam and Gettysburg, the detected respectively, a few days after these battles were fought. A photo of his meeting with President Lincoln with General McClellan at Gettysburg shows also.
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