Publication Date

1981

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Meyer, Jerry D.

Degree Name

M.A. (Master of Arts)

Legacy Department

Department of Art

LCSH

Inness; George; 1825-1894; Painters--United States--Biography

Abstract

In an analysis of the oeuvre of the nineteenth-century American landscape painter, George Inness, one notices a sense of continuity among all the pictorial elements. Evident in his earliest works, this quality intensifies throughout his career, culminating in works in which the particularity of shapes and colors has been completely supplanted by amorphous, suggestive compositions. With an appreciation of the intense spiritual nature of the artist, one realizes this progression was the reflection of his own religious and philosophical maturation. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that this spiritual unity, manifest in the paintings of Inness, was the result of an intricate synthesis of various artistic and literary influences. A chronological analysis of these influences will provide insight into the complexity of Inness as artist and as individual.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references.

Extent

iii, 115 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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