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... In the case of Thomas Eakins the word art means the natural world around a person. Thomas Eakins is the first true American realist artist who strives to capture the natural world around him to the best of his possibilities. By combining the medical study of anatomy, the ability to draw and the artistic techniques of Europe, Thomas Eakins creates a truly unique style of his own. Thomas Eakins sees objects in nature to be art without embellishments, which causes him to paint objects as he sees them, because to him nature equals perfection and to embellish on perfection would be to ruin perfection.
Thomas Eakins finds his inspiration throughout his studies learning from not only his studies of anatomy in the United States, but also from some of the great artists in Europe. Once Eakins graduated from high school he studied drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and anatomy at Jefferson Medical School, as Fairfield Porter explains (12-3). ... ” Since Eakins had such a strong affection for anatomy he spent much of his time in his earlier studies dissecting. Porter demonstrates this fact by adding a quote written by Eakins stating, “ One dissects simply to increase his knowledge of how beautiful objects are put together to the end that he may be able to imitate them (13).” Elizabeth Johns states that, “what Eakins most wanted was to paint from life (14).” Johns continues with a quote from Eakins that states, “The artist keeps an eye on Nature and steals her tools.” Johns adds that, “Eakins found the interest of the human image inescapable. ... In 1866 Eakins leaves Philadelphia and arrives in Paris where he enrolls in École des Beaux-Arts, specifically in the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme (11-2). Johns explains that after three years with Gérôme, Eakins enrolls for a short period of time in the atelier of the portraitist Léon Bonnet. Eakins then goes to Madrid to study the portraits of the great Diego Velázquez (13). Johns goes on by detailing that in Velázquez, Ribera and other Spanish artist Eakins saw subject and technique united; and he saw in happy profusion the techniques of traditional indirect painting with which the painter probed, shape and finally resolved the form of the subject (16).
Approximate Word count = 1807
Approximate Pages = 7.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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