Winslow Homer: A Veteran In A New World

Winslow Homer was a wealthy artist from the 1868-1881, most of his paintings were realistic paintings. Realism is a way to categories paintings, this painting was categorized by what was actually happening in the work of art, his paintings are truthful. He did his paintings before, during and after the civil war. He had many paintings with women, children, farmers, fields, animals, and many other people in his paintings. His paintings were how he felt or what he saw when he painted. He started painting in Boston then he went to New York. He began to study oil paintings in 1861. Homer went to Paris and the French countryside for ten months. After he arrived, he left again for England. England had changed him and his art forever. In 1836 Homer moved from New York to Maine in Prout’s Neck. He took many vacations to Canada, Florida and the Caribbean, where he would create beautiful watercolor paintings. Winslow Homer used many styles, colors and ways of life in his paintings. In the oil painting of A Veteran in a New Field, …show more content…
The majority of the painting is a yellowish, gold color. The feeling this painting gives is uplifting due to the colors Homer uses in his work. Yellow is the way of finding a new way to create new ideas. The blue sky represents the confidence in the farmers work. Many of Homer’s colors he used in his work are similar to all his paintings he did. In the painting by Homer, A Boy in a Pasture, the same colors are used in A Veteran in A New Field, the blue of the sky is the same, the green of the pasture, and the green of the wheat are very similar in color. The outfits the boys and men wear are so close, they all wore hats, suspenders, and long sleeve shirts, even when it is hot out. Homer uses many colors in his work to show that the war was not all a unpleasant place for others not fighting. He used colors to describe the nature and the colors of the ocean with the sun hitting the