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The Architect's Dream And Martin Compare And Contrast

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When looking at two pieces of art it’s easy to just assume there are no similarities. However if you truly take in the whole art pieces you may find more similarities than you might think. For example, while looking at The Architect’s Dream, an oil painting created in 1840 by Thomas Cole and Starruca Viaduct, also an oil painting made by Jasper Franci Cropsey in 1865 you may not see any similarities. These paintings together almost represent the split world we live in; the division between man-made and nature. Both areas are beautiful in their own ways which is what Cole and Franci were able to depict. Neither side is better or worse, just different, so how could these two paintings be similar?
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The main difference is the overall theme of the painting. The Architect’s Dream is a painting centered around the ability of man. This is done through making the main focal point this huge complex building, that as the title would suggest is an Architect’s Dream. By using the repetition of the archways in not only the focal point building but also in the church, Cole is able to highlight the beauty of what humans enjoy making. As well as the ability of humans to create something repeatedly with almost no differences. In contrast, Starruca Valley’s painting is centered around a sizeable mountain. Not only this mountain but almost all the scenery is focused on nature. Unlike The Architect’s Dream, Cropsey uses natural, unrepeating strokes to create this painting. No two trees are the same, similar to how you would find them in nature. The color choices of each painter are completely different. Cole uses lighter colors to capture his vison whereas Cropsey uses deeper, richer tones for his. The lighter colors give a certain softness to Cole’s work that without these colors would not have existed because of the type of lines he used to create the columns and buildings. To the opposite effect, the richer tones in Cropsey’s work helped distinguish the detail as his lines were more natural it is easy for the details to be muddled and lost with colors too similar or

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