USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

JACKSONIAN AMERICA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The group of painters whose work celebrated the American landscape was known as
A
the Nationalistic school.
B
the Thames River school.
C
the Hudson River school.
D
regionalists.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The early leaders of the Hudson River school were Thomas Doughty, Asher Durand, and Thomas Cole, all of whom worked in the open and painted reverential, carefully observed pictures of untouched wilderness in the Hudson River valley and nearby locations in New England.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hudson River School (c. 1825–75) Group of US landscape painters influenced by European Romanticism. They were so named because of their idealized scenes of the Hudson River valley.

Detailed explanation-4: -The British-born painter Thomas Cole is widely acknowledged as the founder of the Hudson River School, having hiked high into the Catskill Mountains of New York State to paint the first landscapes of the region in 1825.

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