The artwork titled “Drawing of a Workman,” created by Thomas Eakins, belongs to the Realism art movement and falls under the genre of sketch and study.
In this artwork, Thomas Eakins employs simple yet expressive lines to depict a laborer engrossed in his task. Rendered with a sense of spontaneity, the work captures the raw and unembellished essence of the moment. The strokes are brisk and confident, conveying the figure’s posture and movement with an economy of detail that nonetheless imparts a vivid sense of physical presence. Eakins’s emphasis on the workman’s muscular form and the dynamic lines of his bent limbs effectively communicates both the exertion of physical labor and the energy of human endeavor.
