Thomas Eakins verses Jean-Antoinc Wattean

Artist Thomas Eakins and Jean-Antoinc Wattean are very amazing and interest artists. They well understood the usage of the lines and applied on their artworks: ‘The Biglin Brothers Racing’ and ‘The Embarkation for Cynthera’. These artworks base on the lines toward movement and direction gave the audience strong impressions.

Both Artist Thomas and Jean-Antoinc’s artworks are based on the direction and movement. People from their artworks are facing and going toward one direction like men in ‘The Biglin Brothers Racing’ shipping towards the harbor and people in ‘The Embarkation for Cythera’ walking toward the ship. Additionally, people and backgrounds from both pictures based on the horizontal, vertical, or both lines; these lines are connected to the movement. Landscapes are backgrounds on both pictures.

Artist Thomas used many horizontal lines and diagonals in his artwork ‘The Biglin Brothers Racing’. A ship, sea, and the boundary between sea and mountain have drawn basing on horizontal lines; and the skyscraper, people’s arms, and paddle has drawn basing on diagonals. These lines provide the visual powers, and capture the streamlined quality of sculling. Additionally, this picture is non-colorful and painted mostly with dark colors. These colors provide the audience peace and boring mood.

Unlike Thomas’s artwork, Jean’s artwork ‘The Embarkation for Cynthera’ has a curved line upon the crowd of people who is waiting or going toward the ship. It calls the audience’s attention toward the sitting couple on bottom of picture where the line started. It also led the audience to track the line. Furthermore, it was painted with lighter colors than dark colors. This matching color provides peaceful, exciting, and happy mood to the audiences. I can feel some sunshine from this picture unlike ‘The Biglin Brothers Racing’.

I could have different feelings from their paintings. I feel their artworks are more stable and emotional. I also could feel the strength on their picture unlike other artwork I ever saw.