Romantic Art - 16 Painting: United States

Sixteenth video about the Romantic Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message.

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Romanticism is born in XIX century. It is about the manifestation of feelings and sensations through art. It began in literature by the ideas of Goethe, Rousseau and Hegel. Ideals as revolution, nationalism, freedom, independence are the pillars of the romantic thinking. Historicism, coming back to the old forms, but reinterpreting it. Dramatic emotions, the sublime and ruins. Nostalgia for the past.

Painting was very developed in Romanticism. Great imagination, theme of the Middle Ages, legends from the north and national legends. Exotism, ruins, sublime landscapes, monsters, fantasy, dramatism are some of the characteristics.

United States: here it is the Hudson River School. This is my all-times favourite school of painting! They make epic landscapes, sublime, I just think there are no words to describe them. Inmensity, fantasy, epicness... Landscapes of the West of America.

Thomas Cole: Consumation of the Empire, Desolation of the Empire, View from Mount Holyoke, Autumn in the Catskills, Aqueduct near Rome, Expulsion Moon and Firelight, Catskill Mountain House the Four Elements, Goblet of the giant, Fountain of Vaucluse, Cross in the sunset, Dream of the architect, Cauterskill Falls on the Catskill Mountains

Frederic Edwin Church: Heart of the Andes, Icebergs, Morning in the tropics, Rain time in the tropics, River of light, Aurora borealis, Newport Mountain Mount Desert, Niagara waterfalls

Albert Bierstadt: The Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, Mountain out of the mist, Rest on the ride, Deer at sunset, Sunset in the Yosemite Valley

Thomas Moran: Yellowstone Canyon

John Frederick Kensett: Mount Washington

George Hetzel: River Landscape, Field with livestock and shepherds, Scalp Level, Rocky Gorge, Woodland Stream

William Guy Wall: Cauterskill Falls on the Catskill Mountains Taken from under the Cavern

William Keith: he was not in Hudson River School, but wanted to add him too. Sierra Canyon

George Catlin: he wasn’t in Hudson River School either. He made paintings of native americans. I’ve already talked about him in American Art, so I just added a few examples in this video. Stu-mick-o-súcks (Buffalo Bull’s Back Fat, a Blood chief), Tipis, Hunt of the Buffalo

Music: Symphony N. 5, First Movement by Beethoven

Photos taken in Google images.

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