The Artist Thomas Cole s Life With The Beauty Of The...

The artist Thomas Cole was born in 1801, in England. He was an immigrant in the United States, his family and him migrated to the states in 1818, he was 17 years of age. Thomas Cole lived in many different states including, Ohio, Philadelphia and in Pittsburgh where he work all over the place traveling back and fourth as a portrait artist. Thomas Cole was a self-taught artist yet he did interact with well know artist. A changing point in Cole s life that in my opinion that had a big impact on the painting I am going to be talking about is when Cole discovered and fell in love with the beauty of the Hudson River valley. His beautiful landscape exhibitions led him to become part the National Academy of Design. Cole began to paint†¦show more content†¦In this painting we see an infant that is in a boat. Behind the infant there is an angel that is guiding the child out of a cave into a beautiful landscape. Thomas Cole paints the landscape very rich; you get o a sense of warmth a nd calmness. There is beautiful green land, big mountains, and different types of flowers. According to the website Exploring Thomas Cole, there are different types of allegories in this painting. The first allegory is the hourglass that is in the boat. The hourglass is meant to represent time, the second allegory is the river, which is meant to represent the stream of life, and the third allegory is the flower, which is an Egyptian lotus, which Cole described as symbolical of Human Life. Finally the cave that the infant and the angel are coming out of according to Thomas Cole is an emblematic of our earthly origin, and the mysterious Past. Cole uses different types of light and dark colors it gives the painting a different look, the light colors fade and so does the dark colors, this is called chiaroscuro. Perspective was also used in this painting; different parts of the painting have different sizes giving us a sense of depth. The second painting, Youth, painted in 1842, oil on canvas, 53 in Ãâ€" 76 in, continues to have a beautiful green landscape, we still see trees, flowers, mountains, and now we see a castle in the back. In this painting the view is widening. The child from the last painting now looks like adolescent. The