MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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American Progress
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American Angel
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -American Progress has become a seminal example of American Western art. The painting serves as an allegory for Manifest Destiny and American westward expansion.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Gast, American Progress, 1872.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reasons for the Painting Gast uses his painting to tell the message that the United States is destined to expand West. Technology, such as railroads and telegraph wires, is moving west as well as many people.
Detailed explanation-4: -George Crofutt, a publisher of a popular series of western travel guides, commissioned Brooklyn-based artist John Gast to create “American Progress” in 1872.
Detailed explanation-5: -Analysis of ‘American Progress’ The centerpiece of the painting, the woman in white represents the potential freedom and enlightenment that Americans would bring to the West. Behind her-to the right, that is, the East-the sky is light, and symbols of prosperity and settlement dot the landscape.