This Painting is About Democracy

slow art story by Amor Sciendi

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Landscape paintings were HUGE in the early 19th century, and the reason? Well, it’s complicated.

Via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvqku3PfLV4

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Gallery 759: Emergence of the Hudson River School, 1815–50

"View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow"

by Thomas Cole