Passage of Delaware
Summer was about to come, comfortable sunlight shines directly on the middle school building. the sky is clear and blue, the smell of dry grass flowing in the air. The coming of June only meanings the approaching of fun, happiness and ice-cream for a normal 8th grader, but for me, the event that appends during June of 2015, changed my life forever.
Getting off the bus, with 5 huge canvas bigger than my body in my hand, I successfully absorbed all of my classmate’s attention. After putting all my stuff down on the desk, I took a look at the clock: 7:24, ten minute till the beginning of the presentation. After ten minute, the project that I spend the entire nine-weeks on is going to be presented in front of all the teacher…show more content… I forgot how I stand up and move my feet to the stage, the next thing I know was me standing in front of a microphone, everybody in the room was looking at me. The air in the room was still, none of the birds was singing outside, no body in the room talks. My hand is shaking, my lip was too dry to form the shape of a word.
“ Go…good afternoon, m topic of the team project is the Visual art History of United States.” I heard my voice coming out of my mouth,” After the Declaration of Independence in 1776, which marked the official beginning of the American national identity, the new nation needed a history, and part of that history would be expressed visually.The first painting I want to share with you is the Passage of Delaware, painted by Thomas Sully in 1819….
As I begin to talk, I glanced on my painting, looking at the canvas, I can smell the oil paint. My painting was certainly not as impressive as the master’s work, but still looks nice and accurate. A little bit of proud rise from the deep of my heart. I raised my head.
“Admired for his lively brushwork, Thomas Sully was the leading portrait painter in Philadelphia in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Historical subjects such as this one were rare in his oeuvre of well over two thousand
