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Early life
Audubon was born in Les Cayes, Haiti (then the colony of Saint-Domingue)Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 26. ISBN 086576008X on his father's sugar plantation. He was the illegitimate son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer (and privateer), and his mistress Jeanne Rabin, a French/Spanish Creole chambermaid from Louisiana. Audubon's mother died when the boy was just a toddler, perhaps in illness related to the birth of her daughter. During the American Revolution, his father Jean Audubon was imprisoned by the British. After his release, he helped the American cause.Alice Ford, Audubon By Himself, The Natural History Press, Garden City NY, 1969, p.4 A slave rebellion in Saint-Domingue in 1788 convinced Jean Audubon to sell his holdings and return to France with his three-year-old son and infant daughter.Shirley Streshinsky, Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness, Villard Books, New York, 1993, ISBN 0-679-40859-2, p.13 Audubon was raised by his father and stepmother Anne Moynet Audubon in Nantes, France. His father had been married to Moynet before going to Saint-Domingue, but had acquired a mistress in the colony. Jean Audubon formally adopted the boy in March 1789, naming him Jean-Jacques Fougère Audubon. When Audubon at age 18 boarded ship for immigration to the United States in 1803, he changed his name to an anglicized form: John James Audubon.Richard Rhodes, John James Audubon: The Making of American, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2004, ISBN 0-375-41412-6, pp. 3-4. Read full entryThis entry is from Wikipedia,the leading user-contributed encyclopedia.It may not have been reviewed by professional editors(See full disclaimer)
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Did John James Audubon really I just want to know this
because i'm doing science
project on john audubon and i
heard he got into a
streetfight with samuel adams
bowen so is it true?
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i can't find it mentioned in any biography so i doubt it |
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Which art movement is John For a class report. I need the
art movement he is known for
being in (if he fits into
one). Through my research, I
haven't found any information
pertaining to Audubon and a
certain art movement.
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I don't really think he has a movement. If I had to guess I would say Realism since his picteures are true to life. Audubon lacked formal academic training in art. This forced him to continually experiment with different techniques to best capture nuances of color and textures of feather and fur. Audubon tested various ways to set up bird models, seeking to bring realistic images of the iridescence of feathers, the appearance of soft down, the reflection of light, and the overall look of living birds. While a majority of birds he painted had been studied live, he frequently used skins and mounted specimens for the Quadrupeds. Written descriptions, sent by Rev. John Bachman, his co-author and a naturalist, and by other scientists, helped Audubon bring life to his mammal skins. He believed that direct observation of animal behavior provided superior images. However, many illustrations and much of the text were based not on firsthand observations in the wild but on zoo animals and preserved specimens borrowed from museums in Europe and the United States. By the early 1820s, Audubon's predominant medium had become watercolor, which he layered and mixed with other mediums to achieve complex coloring and depth. He began his drawings with a faint pencil outline and then would complete the work with a meticulous application of watercolors. Even when an assistant completed the background, the total conception was, largely, Audubon's. For watercolors, the birds were often completed first, while the backgrounds were later added by assistants or Audubon himself. Less commonly, background habitat was painted first. Audubon's two sons, Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse, became his closest associates. Victor was primarily a landscapist, while John a portrait painter who sometimes did animals. The senior Audubon was a far better artist than John Woodhouse, whose animals were less lifelike, and less original, in composition. Audubon's success as an artist had a great deal to do with his personal charm and superior salesmanship, and the pre-Civil War era in which he lived. |
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i have a book by john james i need more info on a book by
john james audubon "birds of
america". it was originally
published in november of 1937.
i have the one that was
published in 1941. could you
tell me where i can research
it more.
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I'm not sure if you've already tried it.. but Wikipedia has some information. =) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B irds_of_America_%28book%29 |
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