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The Hudson River School was an art movement during the 19th century that involved a group of painters influenced by landscaping. The paintings in which the Hudson River School includes can be found in the Catskill, Adirondack, and the White Mountains. The Hudson River School paintings consist of three different themes, such as, discovery, exploration, and settlement. Church, a famous artist from the Hudson River School mainly focused on landscape using elaborate colors. Thomas Cole, another famous painter who also mainly focused on landscape influenced Fredrick Church. Thomas Cole was a famous artist who influenced all the painters of the Hudson River School including Fredrick Church (Miller, Screen 2).
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Thomas Cole was a famous artist during the 19th century and influenced a lot of painters in the Hudson River School. Even though Cole’s landscape tradition was simple, he was very expressive through his paintings, which made up for the unchallenging landscaping art. In all of Cole’s works, he used elaborate colors that expressed his feelings for nature. For example, in one of his most famous works, //Oxbow on the Connecticut River//, he shows the historical difference between nature and culture. Cole was hugely interested with the Middle Ages, which led him to the Gothic movement. Because Cole was so interested with the Middle Ages, he is famous for //The Past// and //The Present//, which are paintings that express long term romanticism. It was not much later when Cole was drawn into Christian subjects. //The Cross and the World// was another one of Cole’s famous works, but people are still left clueless about the meaning even after his death. Cole’s later friendships in the artistic community were always strong (Miller, Screen 3). Frederic Edwin Church was one of the most well known American painters. Frederic Church was part of the Hudson River School and used many of the special techniques in his paintings during the mid 1800s. While Frederic began to paint Thomas Cole, a significant artist in the Hudson River School, offered him assistance. Both Thomas Cole and Frederic Church painted American landscapes which made them part of the Hudson River School movement. It was important for Hudson River Artists to paint landscapes because it introduced new scenes and settings to people who have never been to these places. This became very popular, which is why Frederic Erwin Church’s artwork strived. One of Frederic Church’s most important paintings was The Heart of Andes. This painting is set in a beautiful landscape and represents a new environment that people were not used to. This painting shows a large amount of land that looks peaceful and quiet. There is a waterfall, which represents serenity, and there are large mountains. This painting is very natural looking and allows us to see the beauty of America. Frederic Edwin Church was a very successful painter, and represents the Hudson River School style in many different ways (Kelly, Screen 1). The Hudson River School style consists of different landscapes through the Americas. The Hudson River school had many different painters such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Church who helped develop this style. The Hudson River School focused on different landscapes that people had never seen before. This made people more aware of different places in the Americas and some people even migrated to these areas. The paintings showed large amounts of land, new types of trees, and different forms of nature that people had never seen before. The Hudson River School allowed people to recognize and appreciate different parts of the America’s and accept a new lifestyle. This form of art became hugely important and some of the best painters were painting with the Hudson River School (Kelly, Screen 1).

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