Snap the Whip, Art History

The piece above is named 'Snap The Whip', by Winslow Homer. This piece what made in the 1872, in oils.

This what made in the realistic movement, which was a movement in which artists tried to create their pieces based on the human eyes perspective; the real truth. There was no paintings of Gods, or mythical creatures, and the times of royalty were grown out of and art was focused more on the common man. As the art above shows, a realistic painting of common boys playing a game in front of what would be assumed their house. Many realistic and fine details allow you so infer that this was during the realistic movement.

In our group...
Sarah-

• found spot to film
• helped with poster
• started camera
• was in the shot
• helped with information  
• helped with position to shoot

 Travis-

• was in the shot
• helped with information
• helped with position to shoot

Me-

• found painting
• helped with information
• was in the shot
• helped with position to shoot
• helped with poster

If I would do this project again I would pick a painting that was more emotional and detailed so it would be more of a challenge to represent the same feeling from the original painting. I would chose that because although picking a painting that was so realistic and following it was difficult, the feeling that comes across from paintings would be a cool challenge to try to re-invent. 

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When did you step back and analyze you work during this project? 

I did this often, I would step back and look at the overview every time I would finish a certain aspect. For example if I had finished the nose I would step back and look. I tried to never really look at the whole view before I was fully finished with the piece because I often find that a drawing always looks very wrong but you have to keep going and then it'll turn into a good finished piece. I try not to put myself in a position where I get frustrated because it "looks weird".

Did you consider how ideas would work before you tried them?

Honestly, most of the time no. While I drew the hair I did, but that was the only characteristic. For this piece of art I kind of just went with it.  What I did notice however, was that the hair turned out the most unrealistic and that is what I consider how ideas would work before I tried it.

How did you respond to challenges that occurred as you worked? 

I tried to focus on layers if a problem occurred. I would notice it quickly and focus on using layers to cover it up or morph the mistake into what I first meant it to turn out as.

Did your work take an unexpected turn due to a mistake or did something happen that was unplanned?

Not really. I had no set idea of how I thought this drawing would turn out as, and I had no huge mistakes or an epiphany on how to do something so there was no un-expected turn in my process/ work.

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