American Lifestyle Paintings

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Fernando Castillo Rodriguez
Hist 103
Class 38866
Writing Assignment 2 Option A
American lifestyle Paintings
The customs and lifestyle of American families are well represented in thefamily paintings made at the beginning of the nineteenth century. These paintings were often made by unknown artists and are well known not only for artistic reasons but because they reveal both anidealized conception of the family life and the details of its reality.
In the painting shown on the textbook named The Sargent Family we see a very detailed painting that allows us to observe veryspecific characteristics in the way of life of that family. We can see for example that is probably a wealthy family in which the man is responsible for the household and his wife is a home stay mom.The man is presented in formal clothes and we can assume that he could be a politician or a business man with a growing family. The family is composed by four children and the parents. It is verypossible that the family will grow up after a few years because the youngest of the kids is only a few months old. The wife is sitting with the baby in her leaps representing a home stay mom.
Anotherimportant detail that is presented in the painting is that families begin to have animals as pets; there is a dog that is playing with one of the kids, the kid is holding a ball in his hand and apair of birds in cages is hanging from the wall. The painting was done around the year 1800 and as many of the paintings of those times has an unknown author.
In the second painting called Thefamily at home we see a family at their home in which the boys and girls are clearly differentiated by their wearing. The boys are wearing formal clothes as well as the father. It is a large family of 8members where the father is reading the news paper probably reflecting the habits of a well educated parent. . One of the boys is reading a book indicating that boys were to study an early age...
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