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Running head: BREEZING UP A FAIR WIND BY WINSLOW HOMER
BREEZING UP A FAIR WIND BY WINSLOW HOMER
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BREEZING UP A FAIR WIND BY WINSLOW HOMER
This paper focuses on the topic regarding the finest art piece or painting named “Breezing
Up A Fair Wing” and its painter “Winslow Homer”, who is an American artist. There is lot goes
behind the making of a perfect piece of art which can be praised for the longest period-of-time in
the history. Talking about this particular piece of art, this took the artist near about 3 years in
order finish this art piece and make it as perfect as possible. Also this particular piece of painting
is comprises of several inspirations from different other art works, among them the most
influential one is definitely the French work of art done by some of the finest artists of France
who succeeded in inspiring Homer in terms of creating seascapes and out of all those seascapes,
Breezing Up became the most recognised one because of its high level and polished artistry. This
paper covers the elaborated history regarding the painting and its artist in detailed manner along
with all the vital bits and pieces in order to know about the positioning of the art in the history as
well as in recent time.
Winslow Homer (1836-1910) is an American artist. This nineteenth century influential
artist has departed from the Impressionistic article convention in order to produce most realistic
paintings regarding American life. Surpassing at demonstration, watercolour and oil paintings,

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BREEZING UP A FAIR WIND BY WINSLOW HOMER
Homer initially won applaud for Civil War illustration rendered for Harper’s Weekly”, later
painting rural scenes and idyllic farm. Besides all this Homer is mostly known for his seascapes
which are often indulged with epic grandeur and energy, and his undeviating connection with
man’s apathetic relationship with the rough wilderness to African American rural life in the era
of post civil war. He had a great influence over the water colour artwork, with spontaneous,
fresh, beautiful and natural style depicted veils of atmosphere which stays unparalleled. In the
year of 1881, he spent nearly two years on the coast of English depicting only the simple
scenarios based on local communities (Eager). The is piece of art named Breezing Up A Fair
Wind is an oil painting drawn by him, represents a catboat, which is called as Gloucester hewing
through the city’s harbour beneath a fair wind. This painting us also known as “As a Favor De
La Brisa, and it is located in Washington DC USA, National Gallery. In the painting there are
three man in the boat, along with three boys and their catch. Winslow Homer originated the
canvas in the year 1873 in New York, right after he visited Massachusetts, Gloucester where he
first started working using the water colours. Homer utilised the sketches which were present
there for his oil painting on which he worked for straight three years; and among all those
sketches the most nearly identical one is Sailing the Catboat, which was created in the year 1873.
During this time, the changes or alterations he made in terms of the composition all has been
revealed by Infrared reflectography, comprising the elimination of the fourth boy near the mast
along with second sooner in the distance. At a particular point, the adult was responsible for
holding both the tiller and the sheet; this position has been borrowed from an oil study in the year
1874 named The Flirt. The message that has been delivered by the painting is all positive apart
from the choppy waves, which looks a bit scary but still people on the boat are looking relaxed.
The boy has been replaced by the anchor was to understood to signify anticipation. The boy held