George Catlin's Portraits of Native Americans

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Art - Visual artists, grade: 1,30, University College Cork, language: English, abstract: This essay critically analyses the painter's use of visual means to represent the subject and demonstrate that Catlin did not depict his sitters entirely lifelike by focusing on the authenticity, modifications and external influences of his portraits. The brief historical and cultural contextualisation of the topic will be followed by an analysis of the portraits of the tribal chiefs Stu-mick-o-súcks and Máh-to-tóh-pa as examples of 'Republican Indians'. Subsequently, it scrutinizes the historical impact of the artist's portraits by introducing Catlin's narrative portrait of Wi-jún-jon, which documents an Indian individual's fate and reveals the artist's attitude towards Native Americans' encounter with civilisation. Work completed under the supervision of Dr Simon Knowles in fulfilment of the requirements of the Module HA 2009 "Creator and Subject: Themes in Portraiture", University College Cork, 2016.

Auteur

Christina Patricia Haupt 26.07.1995 | Landshut, Germany HOMEPAGE https://christina-haupt.jimdo.com/ EDUCATION M.A. "European Studies", Passau University, Germany | Since 10. 2017 Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary | 02. - 06.2018 B.A. "European Studies", Passau University, Germany | 10. 2014-09.2017 University College Cork, Ireland | 08. - 12. 2016 Graduation from High School | 06. 2014 OCCUPATIONS (selected) Tutor at the chair of Art History and Pictorial Science Advisor at "PIN.occhio", PIN.Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V. Workshop assistant at "Kinder können Kunst...", Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen | Die Pinakotheken Trainee at the Department of Cultural Education at the State Collections of Antiquities and the Glyptothek, Munich | 7.-8.2019 Curator of the exhibition "Debüt für die Kunst" in the Museum of Modern Art, Passau | 6.-9.2017 LANGUAGES English C2 | Spanish B2 | French A2 | Italian A2 | Hungarian A1 | Latin CONTACT chrissie.haupt@web.de