the hudson river school is an identifying group title given to a number of mainly landscape painters working in the usa in the early and middle years of the 19th century,it is not ,as its name appears to suggest,a school or mocenent in the way that one would describe encompasses two generations of painters inspired by Thomas Cole’s, awesomely Romantic images of America’s wilderness - in the Hudson River Valley and also in the newly opened West. The particular use of light effects, to lend an exaggerated drama to such elements as mist and sunsets, developed into a subspecialty known as Luminism.
KINDRED SPIRITS(1894)
ASHER BROWN DURAND(1796-1886) oil painting on canvas (112*91.4cm)(courtesy the New York Public Library)
The early history of the United states is principally concerned with the discovery, exploration and settlement of the land,firstly on the Atlantic seaboard and subsequently,from the 16th to the 19th centuries,to the far west,to the rocky Mountains and ultimately to the western seaboard.the early settlers,
