What is Hudson River School?
The movement of artists now known as Hudson River School flourished in America in the mid -19th century, depicting the noble landscapes of the West. These painters founded their philosophy of the ideal of nature as God and devoted themselves to the landscape that caused the same respect and respect.
Thomas Cole founded a movement in 1825 in a dialogue with literary transcendentalists like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Everyone believed in the ideal of a new American identity as one of the unlimited potential. They have explored new spirituality from the strict, suffocating culture of Europe. The raw, open views from the UPState New York attracted Hudson River School to the potential power of "untouched" natural formations. The communication of man with nature symbolized the return to the pure direct worship of God. The artists were supposed to reproduce the same worship of the representations of the noble. Paintings of key characters such as Asher Durand and Frederic Church are illustrated by the standard composition. A large canvas shows a vista under the dramaCutting lighting. Little people often intervene at dawn or dusk, emphasizing the grandeur. The depiction prefers realism, but highlighting the lighting romantizes the landscape. The fallen trees and tree stumps are a popular tropical noble, because they remind us of the power of nature to destroy and restore.
Hudson River School promoted a nationalist agenda. They divided with European romance with another view of their country in America. They believed that American independence was reflected in the "empty" wilderness. This perception called them to fill the West, as dictated by the obvious fate. The moral imperative to experience, but not to spoil, the beauty of the wilderness ignored the possible morality of those who already live in the "wild" continent. Americans in busy cities on the coast dreamed of their lives independently in the mountains. However, the complete calamity of the Civil War destroyed the ideals of artists and the work of Hudson River School toOlem stopped in 1876.