Bingham, GC (English spelling) BinghamGC

…In the second half of the 19th century, the focus shifted to recording nature, and naturalistic realism gave way to inner subjective expression at the end of the century. Along with landscape painting, genre paintings that took everyday life as their subject matter flourished in eastern cities and the Midwestern frontier from the mid-19th century onwards (William Sidney Mount (1807-68), George Caleb Bingham (1811-79), Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), etc.). Genre paintings of the time, which plainly depict the healthy and cheerful lives of ordinary people, have something in common with the literature of the nation's poet, Whitman. …

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…19世紀後半には自然の記録へと視座は移ってゆき，その自然主義的リアリズムは，世紀末には内面的な主観表現の道をたどった。また風景画と並んで19世紀中ごろ以降，東部各都市や中西部のフロンティアで，日常生活に題材をとる風俗画が隆盛を見た(マウントWilliam Sidney Mount(1807‐68)，ビンガムGeorge Caleb Bingham(1811‐79)，ジョンソンEastman Johnson(1824‐1906)など)。庶民の健康的で陽気な暮しを平明に描写する当時の風俗画は，国民詩人ホイットマンの文学に通じるものをもつ。…

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