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In addition, his painterly brushstroke, dynamic composition, and bright colours strongly recall the Romantic style that was then popular in European painting, where it was best exemplified by his acquaintance the French painter Eugène Delacroix. Rugendas’s sketchy, painterly style embodies the true ...
These historians—including Patricia Nelson Limerick, Richard White, William Cronon, and Donald Worster—viewed Turner’s concept of the frontier as ethnocentric in its failure to acknowledge that the landscape into which the settlers came had already been altered by centuries of habitation by Native ...
Learn how Romanticism, the Hudson River School of landscape painting, writers Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott, and the Transcendentalism movement. New American Culture Example of American Renaissance art by Bierstadt You might find a painting like this one - or a copy of it - on the walls...
ECM: Your second book is a history of American environmentalism by way of Christianity and capitalism and detailed discussions of landscape painting. How did you decide to write history through art criticism? MS:I’m interested in a lot of things! I take a sort of polymath approach to the ...
American Romantic Art often includes the work of landscape artists in the 19th Century like those involved with the Hudson River School of Painting. Artists such as Thomas Cole, George Inness, and Frederic Edwin Church looked to the upstate New York landscape as a place of beauty and inspiration...
Largely self-taught, Jerome Howes (American, b. 1955) devoted himself to painting in 1994 and quickly gained a wide-spread following on his native Cape Cod, and Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. He specializes in marine subjects, having acquired a deep appreciation of the marine art tradition ...
“Mention of the Harlem Renaissance conjures up images of glitzy nightclubs, glamorous figures, great literary achievements, and the birth of new trends in painting and sculpture, as well as a growing intellectual movement.” It was the becoming of and the publicization of black culture that was...
Cahokia, as it may have appeared around 1150 CE. Painting by Michael Hampshire for the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. *The American Yawp is an evolving, collaborative text. Please click here to improve this chapter.* I. Introduction Europeans…
anunderwaterlandscape painting. That is, unless you count Russian artist Ilya Repin’sSadko in the Underwater Kingdom, which is more of a showcase for mermaid breasts than anything else (a friend of mine who is a scholar of Russian art calls it a “weird failure of a painting,” but ...