ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Hudson River School paintings reflect three themes of America in the 19th century: discovery, exploration, and settlement. They also depict the American landscape as a pastoral setting, where human beings and nature coexist peacefully.

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. American expansion and Manifest Destiny imbued the untamed countryside with the symbolism of the country’s promised prosperity and limitless resources.

Detailed explanation-3: -An outgrowth of the Romantic movement, the Hudson River school was the first native school of painting in the United States; it was strongly nationalistic both in its proud celebration of the natural beauty of the American landscape and in the desire of its artists to become independent of European schools of painting.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Knickerbocker Group and the Hudson River school reflected the nationalism of 19th century America by creating an American identity in literature and art while the transcendentalists expressed nationalism by showing that Americans were eager to improve their country’s society.