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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
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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 SkinsGeorge Catlin, 184648
Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1861Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (Westward Ho!)
Albert Bierstadt (American)Among the Sierra Nevada, California - 1868
THOMAS COLE’STHE COURSE OF EMPIRE, 1834-1836Part of the Hudson River School of ArtistsInfluenced by RomanticismDepicted life in and around the Hudson River ValleySuggested that God was manifested in nature