To: Joe 6-pack
Albert Bierstadt was my favorite of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The first 3 below are his. The last one, Frederic Church, another of the very best.
4 posted on
06/27/2015 7:51:58 AM PDT by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: ETL
Yes, I’m a fan of the Hudson River painters as well, but I was posting this more for the political/cultural relevance than for art historical reasons. The video points out Cole’s antipathy to Jacksonian democracy and it’s threat to stable republicanism.
6 posted on
06/27/2015 7:55:22 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: ETL
"Our only means of judging the future is the past. We see that nations have sprung from obscurity, risen to glory and decayed. Their rise in general has been marked by virtue, their decadence by vice, vanity and licentiousness. Let us Beware."
~Thomas Cole
8 posted on
06/27/2015 8:02:28 AM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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