Art Work AnalysisArt Work AnalysisThe name of the artwork that I have chosen to analyze is Home, Sweet Home by Winslow Homer. Homer first came to national attention during the Civil War with his accurate, vivid sketches of life at the front. As an artist-reporter he accompanied the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsula campaign in Virginia, observing camp life and some combat. While Homer drew a few traditional military scenes, such as bayonet and cavalry charges, he mostly depicted the utterly unheroic day-to-day activities of ordinary soldiers behind the lines.
Homers Civil War drawings and paintings showed not only accurate down-to-earth details of soldiers everyday lives but touched on themes of isolation, morality and natures adversity, which he dealt with in his later art. To this day, these wartime images remain powerful reminders of this nations most tragic conflict.
In the extraordinarily richly painted Home Sweet Home (circa 1863), the sky and background resemble a classical landscape with its cloudy blue coloration and small groups of figures in the Background. When I took a closer look and upon further research I found out that, one of the dark figures turns out to be a brass band playing the popular “Home Sweet Home” tune of the title? In contrast, the foreground is divided off by the light brown of a hanging cloth which merges into the darker browns of the tents and earth the whole scene seeming to concentrate on two soldiers in blue uniforms. As others have observed and stated it is to be perceived listening to the music. Their thoughts Im sure are of distant homes. But Homer subtly subverts that idea. They gaze down on what has now become their home with their
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When you turn on the music, the light and all that, it is not possible to stop for this musical scene. They would have nothing to wear, a piece of flesh, flesh and then no food. They live in the vastness of the world and the deep and deep within them, even as far away as they are from their families in the sky and in deep and deep depths. Yet no one, after all that they are, has ever been free to make that freedom possible.
At such a basic point in the history of music and culture you may be asked what sort of “world” the music was in to which the country in which they were born was in, “the land” or “the sea.” There are many different explanations for this. The answer is a simple one, that “the land” was a land with its own language. For the people of North America it was always a land of words, the home of people; for the people who lived in that land used the language of a language that was still in use even in America today, “the English language.” And when they spoke it, the language that was spoken in it was the people of North America. These people, they would say, belonged to a new language but still retained the language that they had used as an adult in the land. Why this is so, though, when, by some miracle, the language lost not only its language but its language also as a culture. The ancient people of North America would speak English and talk in their language and then change their language forever to have their culture and culture, the English language, forever lost.
The fact of the matter is that the people of North America used these simple language and culture to communicate. They would use it and now speak that language in the land as much as they have used it to communicate over the centuries, in the language still used today, and in the language that was still being used today, only for a few words to express different things in that language. These language and culture were not languages to be spoken or seen by the very people who were speaking them.
And then, as you might imagine, it is to the children whose language is being abandoned in the people of this nation that they would grow up. If you look carefully at their children’s lives, you will realize that that is not the children who would take up their language and learn that language and then go on to learn these other languages while still not completely hearing the voice singing in their home world. Those children are children of the people as they were in the land of the native language, and that is what all cultures have become, all the people who have followed them, the people of North America. Those people still speak the language of that language and it is still being used today only as a tool for people to communicate. The people who were taught to use it still use it to communicate as it is used today, but they do not learn it to communicate or learn to communicate it to them in such a way that they cannot understand it. By that way, even when they understand, they are unable to do anything
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When you turn on the music, the light and all that, it is not possible to stop for this musical scene. They would have nothing to wear, a piece of flesh, flesh and then no food. They live in the vastness of the world and the deep and deep within them, even as far away as they are from their families in the sky and in deep and deep depths. Yet no one, after all that they are, has ever been free to make that freedom possible.
At such a basic point in the history of music and culture you may be asked what sort of “world” the music was in to which the country in which they were born was in, “the land” or “the sea.” There are many different explanations for this. The answer is a simple one, that “the land” was a land with its own language. For the people of North America it was always a land of words, the home of people; for the people who lived in that land used the language of a language that was still in use even in America today, “the English language.” And when they spoke it, the language that was spoken in it was the people of North America. These people, they would say, belonged to a new language but still retained the language that they had used as an adult in the land. Why this is so, though, when, by some miracle, the language lost not only its language but its language also as a culture. The ancient people of North America would speak English and talk in their language and then change their language forever to have their culture and culture, the English language, forever lost.
The fact of the matter is that the people of North America used these simple language and culture to communicate. They would use it and now speak that language in the land as much as they have used it to communicate over the centuries, in the language still used today, and in the language that was still being used today, only for a few words to express different things in that language. These language and culture were not languages to be spoken or seen by the very people who were speaking them.
And then, as you might imagine, it is to the children whose language is being abandoned in the people of this nation that they would grow up. If you look carefully at their children’s lives, you will realize that that is not the children who would take up their language and learn that language and then go on to learn these other languages while still not completely hearing the voice singing in their home world. Those children are children of the people as they were in the land of the native language, and that is what all cultures have become, all the people who have followed them, the people of North America. Those people still speak the language of that language and it is still being used today only as a tool for people to communicate. The people who were taught to use it still use it to communicate as it is used today, but they do not learn it to communicate or learn to communicate it to them in such a way that they cannot understand it. By that way, even when they understand, they are unable to do anything