LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
REFORM MOVEMENTS OF THE 19TH CENTURY
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Question
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Artists painted landscapes to show man’s connection with nature
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Artists avoided realism
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Artists showed industrialism ruined the environment
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Artists connected greek and roman myths to America
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Hudson River painters took advantage of the wilderness of America and accentuated it to create their work. Their paintings were distinctly American to international viewers, because they illustrated the untouched landscapes that existed in abundance in America during that time.
Detailed explanation-3: -Landscape artists from the Hudson River School helped to define the American consciousness. This essay from the University of Virginia looks changing perceptions of nature in America, and how that was reflected and emphasized in the paintings of the early and mid-19th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.