 The next thing we're going to do is basically look at the same painting all over again. But here's the difference. This is actually just the study for a mural. This is like a sketch. And it was completed in 1861. The same artist painted the same scene, but instead of it being a painting about Yay Big, it was a huge mural wall-sized big. And it's in the capital building. It's in the House of Representatives. So what I want you to do in your groups is compare the two and find the differences because there are some pretty major differences between the two. Look at the head wound though. The head wound is barely a speck of blood in the first one, but then look it's almost like... They all look younger. Even this man looks younger. Everyone of them look younger. Looks like there's smoke coming out of here. Yeah, like in the distance there. Look at the difference in the mountains. Does that mean there's struggles or less? Maybe the image of the struggles being less. Are there more people? It's spread out more. Also notice what happened to the horses because historically they didn't use horses. Pretty much they used oxen. So it's corrected it historically. I notice the pose. The posture is different. He looks more... his back is flatter. Rather than more of a relaxed pose in the previous one. Here he's more... he looks like he's riding faster. He's tighter. I mean he looks like... oh my god is that really it? And in this one it's like I can't see. Why did he take the burial scene out? Do you think? I think he lessened the harshness of the trip in lots of different ways. The mountains are lower. There's less of an asshole. There's greenery on the right side that he didn't have in the first one. So I think he's lessened the hardship of the journey. And that would be one way to do it. And they lower their guns. Okay. Possibly. What else could smoke in the distance be? Industry. Industry? Indians. Why would he add American flags? Yeah? Yeah. He's also gotten more historically correct because he has oxen rather than horses. Yes. And everyone looks younger. Yes. I've noticed that as well. Why would he make everyone younger? What does that do? Okay, so it's encouraging people to go out west. It's like a burial scene. You don't want to scare them. You want to make sure you can go but everybody will live. Right. I think they're dogs. They're interesting too. Yeah, they're dogs and they're painting. I guess you can take your pet with you. Sure. Sometimes with things like this, I wonder if we're looking at this in real life, it is now huge. And I wonder if translating it from this, which isn't too much bigger than this reproduction, to the huge size, if he's like, wow, there's a lot of space to fill. What do I put in there? There is a great video, an art historian that used to work here at the museum, who actually used to be the director of the Birmingham Museum of Art, did a great little 10 minute video on this piece where he explains everything. So incentive for you to contact me and keep up with it. I can send you links to all this great stuff.