#the oxbow

[annemarieyeretzian]

REALISM & NATURALISM 🌳 love, ur local art mom 🩵

disclaimers and more information under the cut ✂️

hi I’m annemarie and I’m an art historian! not adjuncting for the first time in five years was rly hard for me so I threw some slides together so I could still (sort of) teach the same material as my language of art class but a) I threw these slides together for instagram so space was/is limited and b) language of art is a ten week run through art history so I’m presenting only the most accessible information here – there’s so much more to this art period and to these artists! – please don’t expect it to be comprehensive and please do ask if you have any questions!

oh p.s. my first ever class of art history students came up with the name ‘art mom’ for me at the end of the quarter and yes it does make me cry if I think about it too long thanks so much for asking

[ophelias-lamentation]

some more met gala designs of mine

Whenever I think of positive things from America my mind goes to our conservation of national parks, this dress is a direct inspiration of The Oxbow.

This one is for *gag* Karl Lagerfelds gala, I noticed he used a lot of scoop necks and tiered skirts so I leaned into the Chanel wedding dress look along with a hat, gloves, and pearls. Karl hated pink so I used pink

And now we have gilded glamour, I was inspired by the massive masquerade balls thrown at the time. I have a pigeon breast corset, a narrow skirt, and the peacock overskirt inspired by bustles.

[oathofthehoratti]

The Oxbow

So this is The Oxbow (1826) by Thomas Cole who was a British painter. Its meant to represent the idea of Arcadia which is the Ancient Greek version of the idea of Utopia (a perfect world). 

Cole sailed up the Hudson River to paint it and its meant to say that America was the Arcadia. 

It holds themes of westward expansion and it has a lot of similarities to American Progress by John Gast (1872) 

The landscape is well cultivated and sunny then shows stormy untamed nature to emphasize its themes of exploring unknown lands

[19thcenturyartwork]

The Oxbow

Artist: Thomas Cole Year: 1836 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 130.8 cm × 193 cm (​51 1⁄2 in × 76 in) Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

[theartistsmanifesto]

Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, or The Oxbow, 1936. 

[arinewman7]

The Oxbow by Thomas Cole 1836 oil on canvas (aka--View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm)

[mileysinus]

the oxbow hotel in eau claire, wi

[isamajor]

My village in the Oxbow, Medieval Dynasty.