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Art should always make the one who looks it feel something, however miniscule the
feeling may seem or however little it may last. William Wendt can be called the harbinger of
peace or serenity. When his paintings are presented on museum walls, it is similar to a green
vortex that one can climb into and launch oneself in another dimension. It is similar with the
picture, ‘Class of Summer, 1924’. His closeness to nature is well known and so is his very
theist nature. This paper will explore this paining through the eyes of the viewer.
It is typical of people to be shocked into a very green state of mind when his paintings
are displayed, due to the various shades of green in his oil-paintings alone with the subtle
earthly undertones that gives the picture an immediate dimension. This picture is similar and
reminiscent of a scene everybody has witnessed the magnificence of a hill in the backdrop
with nature in the way, helping the view with more beauty.
The picture can be interpreted in countless ways. ‘The Class of, 1924’ brings forth
images of youth, learning and teachers. This can be seen in two ways; first, the viewer
looking lovingly at youthful nature that seems like a class full of different entities like, a sky,
a hill, the meadows and the trees but while secondly, we look at the picture, the picture looks
back at us, like we are a class that nature can school. In the previous interpretation, one might
say that the poet held nature very close to him, like a child he would nurture in his paintings
and help them become something as beautiful as they currently are, carefully kept in a
museum, for people to feel the joy they had brought the painter or maybe, like in the second
interpretation, the artist thought nature to be the teacher and muse to him.
If seen from an artist’s perspective, it is probably the gentleness we associate with
nature and the soft green hues that are balanced with earthly shades, which draws a perfect

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