Humbolt Mountain

HUMBOLT MOUNTAINS-RUBY RANGE Edwin Deakin

PART I : DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTWORK [pic 1]

1. GENERAL DESCRIPTIONII) TRANSITION WITH THE NEXT PAST          
2. PART II : ANALISYS OF THE ARTWORK IN

CONNECTION WITH THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENT IT

BELONGS TO

1. REFERENCE TO THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
2. REFERENCE TO THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENT: ORIGINS? DEFINITIONS
3. CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ARTWORK AND THE ARTISTIC

MOVEMENT

1. ULTIMATE PERSONAL ANALYSIS OF THE ARTWORK IN CONNECTION

WITH THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENT /: THE UNIVERSAL MESSAGE ABOUT MANKID

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Part I) Description of the artwork

1. general description

Firstly, the painting shows a quiet dark atmosphere due to the cold colors and to a lack of human presence. Indeed, the fact that there are kind of hut with a smoke suggest human presence and civilization. Then, we can see two various mountains thanks to the light and the dark it is rejecting. Finally, the rest of the painting shows a large water point, next to there are shrubs, all of this part is used with dark colour.

1. Transition with the next part

However, despite this unverified anecdote, such a scene doesn't aim at representing reality It rather present a purely subjective vision relying on the power of imagination

Part II) Analysis of the artwork in connection with the artistic movement it belongs to  

  REFERENCE TO THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT

As a matter of fact, "Humbolt Mountain" is fully anchored in the time period when it was painted, first of all with its subject matter.. In the 19th century, the first inhabitants of Nevada are the Native Americans: in the early days, they were nomads and hunted hares, antelopes and squirrels. They supplemented their diet with the contributions of fishing. They also picked the berries and picked roots.

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1. CONCLUSION

All thing considered, with this painting Deakin is a true defender of the principles of American Romanticism, implicitly advocating the beauty of nature. He also uses his imagination to propose a bright vision of the future of mankind :  it seem that humans are living into a kind of hut covered with a cloth for protection.  

HARMANT--CAUDRON ELISE, 1G1

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