Scenery Paintings Nature Biography
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Roger Casteleyn was born in Antwerp , Belgium Hartford , Connecticut Lee ,
Massachusetts Catskill , New York Hartford 's
Wadsworth Athenaeum.
Church was the product of the
second generation of the Hudson
River School Hudson River School
was established by the British Thomas Cole when he moved to America and
started painting landscapes, mostly of mountains and other traditional American
scenes. Cole, along with his friend Asher Durand, started this school in New York ; it was the
first well-acknowledged American artistic movement. The paintings were
characterized by their focus on traditional American pastoral settings,
especially the Catskill Mountains , and their
romantic qualities. This style attempted to capture the wild realism of an
unsettled America
that was quickly disappearing, and the feelings of discovery and appreciation
for natural beauty. His American frontier landscapes show “ expansionist and
optimistic outlook of the United
States in the mid-nineteenth century.”
Church did differ from Cole in the topics of his paintings: he preferred
natural and often majestic scenes over Cole’s propensity towards allegory.
Church, like most second
generation Hudson River
School Britain and
France
in the early 1800s as a counter-movement to the Enlightenment virtues of order
and logic. Artists wanted to idealize pastoral scenes that exhibited the wild
and free beauty of nature. This tradition carries on in the works of Frederic
Church, who idealizes an uninterrupted nature, highlighted by creating
excruciatingly detailed art. The emphasis on nature is encouraged by the lack
of people, low horizontal lines, and preponderance of sky to enhance the
wilderness. The technical skill comes in the form of luminism, a Hudson River School Hudson River School scenes of New York
and New England, but by 1850, he had settled in New York . Church’s method consisted of
creating paintings in his studio (in the cold, barren months of the year) based
on sketches (some in oil) created of views in the Summer months. In these
earlier years of his career, Church’s style was incredibly reminiscent of that
of his teacher, Thomas Cole, and epitomized the Hudson River School
Church took two trips to South
America, and stayed predominantly in Quito ,
Ecuador Andes .
After Humboldt’s Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of
America was published in 1852, Church jumped at the chance to travel and study
in his icon’s footsteps (literally, as he stayed in Humboldt’s old house) in Quito , Ecuador Ecuador : The Andes of Ecuador (1855), Cayambe
(1858), The Heart of the Andes (1859), and Cotopaxi
(1862). It was the Heart of the Andes that won
Church fame when it debuted in 1859. The painting pictures several elements of Quito ’s nature combined
into an idealistic portrait of a jungle scene. Despite having clear perspective
and foreshortening, Church keeps every detail (even those of the mountains in
the back) in crystal clear detail. In addition, The Heart of The Andes is also
a documentation, a scientific study of every natural feature that exists in
that area of the Andes .
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Scenery Paintings Nature Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Scenery Paintings Nature Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
Scenery Paintings Nature Pintings of Nature Abstract on Canvas for Kids Scenes Love Beauty and Environment Wallpapers Easy Scenery
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