LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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success of social reform movements in the United States.
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migration of settlers to the U.S. frontier.
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natural landscape of the United States.
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environmental effects of U.S. industrialization.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In general, Hudson River School artists believed that nature in the form of the American landscape was a reflection of God, though they varied in the depth of their religious conviction. They were inspired by European masters such as Claude Lorrain, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.
Detailed explanation-2: -Searching for a national style of art, the American landscape itself-large and untamed-was the primary focus of the Hudson River School painters.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the English émigré Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Founder of the Hudson River School of painting. Thomas Cole was born in 1801 at Bolton, Lancashire in Northwestern England and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818. In 1825, Cole discovered the haunting beauty of the Catskill wilderness.