An Analysis of Two Paintings by Edgar Degas and Charles Peale.
This critique will focus on the using strategies that are part of critiquing in the book Humanities through the Arts by F. David Martin and Lee Jacobus. In studying two paintings: "The Peale Family" painted by Charles Wilson Peale (1773 &1809. The New York Historical Society) and "The Bellini Family" painted by Edgar Degas (1859. Musee d'Orsay, Paris), we will be able to study what influence they have on us, and why they make an appeal for beauty in art. The first painting will represent a painting that will be praised, and the second painting, although beautiful in its own way, will be subject to conflicting criticism. By observing the line, color, and artistic agenda of each of these painters, we can critique them along the guidelines offered by Martin in his book
