Hudson River School of Landscape Painting (mid-19th century American art movement)

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[ETL]

"The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings for which the movement is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains; eventually works by the second generation of artists associated with the school expanded to include other locales in New England, the Maritimes, the American West, and South America."--Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_School

[MarchonDC09122009]

ETL, thanks for going thru the effort of posting these incredible paintings.
All -
It’s fascinating that enlightened western french-german european “artists” came to despise classic painting.
Jealous, these artists started deconstructionist art movement that promoted ugly abstractionism right around the time of Engles, and Marx’s call for collectivism communism.
Man defies god.
Man creates new defiant ugly art paradigm.

Rutherford Institute John Whitehead did a masterful job tracing back historical origins of current state madness in his
Grasping For The Wind documentary.

Study Guide - Vision Video
https://www.visionvideo.com/files/GFTW.pdfProxy Highlight

by John W. Whitehead .... 16. Ecclesiastes 4:4 refers
to humanity’s actions as “ grasping for the wind. .... b) Film depicted the rise of uncertain political elements. 3.

Grasping for the wind : the search for meaning in the 20th century ...
https://archive.org/details/graspingforwind00...Proxy Highlight

Jun 11, 2013 ... Grasping for the wind : the search
for meaning in the 20th century.

[ETL]

...except fine portraits, like from Rembrandt, etc. Takes even more talent, in my view, to do human portraits realistically. Lots more room to make errors and inaccuacies with landscapes.

[Wuli]

Maybe you saved/bookmarked the links you posted. But they are no longer any good. Maybe the material exists via some other links.

[Atlantan]

One of the paintings shown is Asher B. Durand’s “Kindred Spirit” showing his friends, artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant.

The painting is at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, AR. Sam Walton’s daughter, Alice, built the museum to house her art collection. It’s a great museum and free.

https://crystalbridges.org/blog/asher-b-durands-kindred-spirits/

[ETL]

Correction to my post 4: "My favorite HRS artists, of the ones I’m familiar with, are Albert Bierstadt, Edwin Church, and Thomas Duran."

Thomas Duran = Asher B. Durant

Got him mixed up with another HRS favorite of mine, Thomas Moran

[ETL]

One of the paintings shown is Asher B. Durand’s “Kindred Spirit” showing his friends, artist Thomas Cole and poet William Cullen Bryant.

Yes. I was at the Metropltian Museum here in New York City a few weeks ago and the plaque on the wall next to it said the painting was in tribute to Thomas Cole who had then just recently died.

[ETL]

Asher B. Durant = Asher B. Durand

Told you at the start I needed a good sleep!

[iceskater]

Thank you for posting!

The Hudson River School is one of my favorite art genres.
You made my day.

[arrogantsob]

I have always loved these artists. The Hudson River School overlaps the Luminist movement and was the progenitor of the latter.

There is little said about American Art in the schools.

[ETL]

Glad to hear that. :)

Cheered me up a lot too.

[arrogantsob]

I agree most modern art is pushed by satanic forces and, as such, has eliminated beauty from their “art.”

I should also admit that I am a great admirer of Kandinsky.

[ETL]

Asher B. Durand - In The Woods

Also by Asher B. Durand...

[reed13k]

My daughter just finished her 1st year at Cleveland Institute of Art. There are a number of people in her age group who have expressed that they feel realism will be making a comeback in the next 5-10 years. A few have told her they think she will be one of those who leads the way.

Her national silver medal portfolio for Scholastics last year can be seen here under Sakurako Reed:

https://www.artandwriting.org/explore/online-galleries/#art=All&writing=All&future_new=All&art_portfolio=false&writing_portfolio=false&year=2017&state=OH&awards=D&grade=12

Proud papa still bragging on his girls...

[ETL]

That’s great! I wish you and her all the best!

[ETL]

[sparklite2]

“artists” came to despise classic painting.

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Oh, I don’t know. ‘Modern art’ is a cop out for me, too, but apathy and derision are sufficient without hating it. When you think about it, once painting and sculpture reached photographic quality, there could only be one direction for break away art to go, and that was impressionistic and abstract. Doing something every one else is doing isn’t likely to get an aspiring artist very far. Poetry is the same way. What we have today is emoting unconstrained by the conventions that distinguished prose from poesy.

We get the short end of the stick today, but the pendulum is always swinging and zugzwang never goes away.

[rockrr]

Wow, what a treat!

[KC Burke]

Bierstadt was someone whose work stuck in my mind as a young teen. There is a cafe in Granby, Colorado that when I was 13 in the early 60s had a great compliment of framed prints of his work. I took my sons back there over 25 years later, found the cafe without knowing for sure what town it was in and most of the prints were still on the wall.

Saw some magnificent work of his in a SF gallery that was completely different — I will look it up.

[certrtwngnut]

We have been to the Fredrick Church house several times. It is called Olana and is a great piece of architecture. It is on the Hudson River and is easy to get to. If you enjoy old homes we highly recommend visiting it. If I was a good computer person I would add a picture to this post.

[subaru]

The Thomas Cole Voyage of Life series is a must see for me whenever I’m at the National Gallery of Art. So beautiful and moving. And the older I get the more it speaks to me.