ROMANTICISM

• An artistic movement of the middle 1800s that was a reaction against Enlightenment values and creeping industrialization

• It stressed the importance of strong emotion, especially the feelings evoked from people confronting untamed nature

• It tended to evoke powerful feelings of nationalism, noting the spiritual connection between peoples and the unique geographical conditions in which they lived.

“Miners in the Sierras”

Charles Christian Nahl and August Wenderoth, 1851 -52

Catlin and His Indian Guide Approaching Buffalo under White Wolf Skins

George Catlin, 1846 48

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1861Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (Westward Ho!)

Albert Bierstadt (American)

Among the Sierra Nevada, California - 1868

"The Stampede by Lighting”

Frederic Remington, 1908

THOMAS COLE’STHE COURSE OF EMPIRE, 1834-1836

Part of the Hudson River School of Artists

Influenced by Romanticism

Depicted life in and around the Hudson River Valley

Suggested that God was manifested in nature

Thomas Cole, The Savage State, 1836

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Thomas Cole, Pastoral or Arcadian State, 1834

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Thomas Cole, The Consummation of Empire, 1835-1836

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Thomas Cole, Destruction, 1836

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Thomas Cole, Desolation, 1836

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