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Exhumation of the Mastodon
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Exhumation of the Mastodon
WCA Academic Decathlon
History
The Exhumation of the Mastodon was painted in keeping with the styles just after the American Revolution and presented a window into early American paintings.
History
Biography
- Charles Winston Peale was born as a shoemaker in 1741 but transitioned to painting in the 1760s
- Persuaded several wealthy patron to bankroll his trip to London
- Volunteered in the Revolutionary War, painted a photo of George Washington
- Avid lover of natural science, opened the first natural history museum in the USA
Bio.
Subject Matter and Visual Analysis
- Blends multiple different schools of painting together
- Hudson River School background
- Romantic in style
- Displays all fifteen members of his family in the background; Peale thinks of this recovery as family business
- Combines Peale's multiple interests, such as paleontology, inventing and the arts, into one single object
- Uses technology to simplify removal of the mastodon through the mill
- Peale himself holds a drawing of a mastodon bone in the painting
Visual
Contextual Analysis
- Mastodon skeleton unearthed only one of two full skeletons found at the time
- Feather in the cap of American sciences at the time
- Refuted feelings of European superiority; proved that America had unique animals of its own, not "degenrate European" ones
- Became an symbol of national pride
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