American Sublime, the Tate Britain exhibition of 99 works of the 19th-century American landscape painters, carries on from the Hudson River School (originally a contemporary critic's derisive term), to the Luminists, to the artists of western exploration - the creators of the first American ...
To modern eyes a nineteenth-century landscape painter's oil sketches often appear more satisfying than his larger finished paintings. We accept them as works of art, attuned as we are to high levels of abstraction and painterly flourishes in works of all scale. Although many of these sketches ...
Considered a founding figure of the Hudson River school, a mid-nineteenth-century group of American landscape painters, Thomas Cole aimed to elevate landscape painting to an intellectual pursuit, or what he called “a higher style of landscape,” through its potential to convey moralistic narratives...
2. 19th Century American Landscape Art An independent America offered more opportunity to everyone, including artists. Although photography (invented 1839) eventually replaced painting as a chronicler of events and experience, 19th century America relied on painters to record these things. Portraiture ...
Landscape Painters, National Parks, and the American West in Art Thomas Moran,The Chasm of the Colorado, 1873-1874, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA. American Artists out West When the United States acquired western territories likeCaliforniaand Colorado in the 19th century, ...
Hudson River School of landscape painters emerged in search of “wild grandeur”. Statesman,such as Daniel Webster, came to dominate american politics not with their prose but with the emotional force of their oratory. Noah Webster,<an american dictinary of the english language>,美国特点的当地...
Latin America's natural landscape is incredibly diverse, featuring everything from majestic mountains to expansive deserts. In this varied geography, many architectural projects are noteworthy for their seamless integration with their surroundings, blending subtly into the landscape. This is accomplished by...
Hudson River School of landscape painters emerged in search of “wild grandeur”. Statesman,such asDaniel Webster, came to dominate american politics not with their prose but with the emotional force of their oratory. Noah Webster,<an american dictionary of the english language>,美国特点的当地方言...
Within a few decades after the signing of the Declaration ofIndependence in 1776, the population was pushing westward, and portrait painters could befound at work in western New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri.Midway throughits first century as a nation, the United States' ...
Tanner, on the other hand, managed to uniquely balance the physicality of late nineteenth-century American realism with an intense mysticism that was popular among some French painters at the time. In the late 1890s he traveled to Palestine, making many sketches of the landscape and of Jewish ...