Since I have been in Lubbock I have never gotten the opportunity to go to the Texas Tech Museum. Upon going to the museum I did not know what to expect. When I went recently, for the first time, went to the Texas Tech Museum I noticed that the museum had numerous of things in it such as dinosaurs, visuals for the Native Americans, Chinese artifacts, paintings and etc. Even though they had a lot to offer I just paid close attention to the paintings. I notice painting of emotions, painting of excerpts and painting of event is history. The first section of paintings that I look at was the illustrations of novels/ excerpts by Newell Convers Wyeth. These paintings were very particular and were exact visuals of the excerpt on the side of them. I
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It comes from the same story as the one above (‘The Little Shepherd of Kingdom’ by John Fox). In this painting Wyeth is given the hard task of providing visual pain on a southern father hearing that his kid is going to join the union army. The father is looking at the son with a sense of disbelief. He has his lips slightly parted, enough where the pipe in his mouth can hang but not fall. By his lips being slightly parted it shows that he is kind of in shock by what has just been told to him. The position the father is sitting in shows that the father in very intrigued in the conversation. The father is leaned forward with a good grip on the handles of the chair and is trying to make contact with his son. The young man is standing as if he is uncomfortable with what he just said to his father. He has one hand gripping his coat and the other bald up in a fist. This shows that the young man had to have said something that he knew would cause discomfort to his father. This is also proven to be true by the facial expression on the young man’s face. He looks as though he has just given some bad news to someone he loved. Wyeth did a great job with ‘Major, I’m going into the Union Army’ because he was able to express all the emotions each side would feel in the
It comes from the same story as the one above (‘The Little Shepherd of Kingdom’ by John Fox). In this painting Wyeth is given the hard task of providing visual pain on a southern father hearing that his kid is going to join the union army. The father is looking at the son with a sense of disbelief. He has his lips slightly parted, enough where the pipe in his mouth can hang but not fall. By his lips being slightly parted it shows that he is kind of in shock by what has just been told to him. The position the father is sitting in shows that the father in very intrigued in the conversation. The father is leaned forward with a good grip on the handles of the chair and is trying to make contact with his son. The young man is standing as if he is uncomfortable with what he just said to his father. He has one hand gripping his coat and the other bald up in a fist. This shows that the young man had to have said something that he knew would cause discomfort to his father. This is also proven to be true by the facial expression on the young man’s face. He looks as though he has just given some bad news to someone he loved. Wyeth did a great job with ‘Major, I’m going into the Union Army’ because he was able to express all the emotions each side would feel in the