19th Century American Art

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19th Century American Art As the young nation expanded in the 19th century, much of American art was made up of Romantic idealism, which emphasized the imagination in artistic expression. A popular subject matter in American painting during the first half of the 19th century was images of nature and landscapes. Some of the American artists of this period are of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, a group of artists who painted landscapes of areas on the east coast of the United States. Genre painting is painting that portrays scenes from everyday life. Relief sculpture is a sculpture that is attached to a background plane. The Civil War was one of the first wars to have been recorded by photographers.

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm – The Oxbow by Thomas Cole (1836) Popular subject matter in American painting during the first half of the 19th century were images of nature and landscapes.

The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak (1863) by Albert Bierstadt Popular subject matter in American painting during the first half of the 19th century were images of nature and landscapes.

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri (1845) by George Caleb Bingham Genre painting is painting that portrays scenes from everyday life.

Eel Spearing at Setauket (1845) by William Sidney Mount Genre painting is painting that portrays scenes from everyday life.

Battery at Attention (c. 1861-1865) by Mathew Brady Studio

Mathew Brady and his team of photographers documented the Civil War. The Civil War was one of the first wars to have been recorded by photographers.

The Shaw Memorial (1900) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

This relief sculpture commemorates the assault on Fort Wagner by African-American Union troops. A relief sculpture is a sculpture that is attached to a background plane.

The Shaw Memorial (1900) by Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Central Park in Winter (1863) by Nathaniel Currier and James M. Ives

Currier and Ives provided for the American public a pictorial history of their country's growth from an agricultural society to an industrialized one.

Atmospheric perspective refers to how the appearance of objects changes over distance by the effects of the air between the viewer and the object.

Atmospheric perspective in art is the technique of creating the illusion of depth in a painting or drawing by reducing the color and intensity of objects as they get further into the distance.

Atmospheric perspective: The farther away the object is, the lighter in value and less distinct it becomes; the closer the object, the darker and more detailed it is, with greater contrast of light and dark.

The farther the object, the lighter it is in value. The closer the object, the more detail you see.

atmospheric perspective

After a Thunderstorm – The Oxbow by Cole

Central Park in Winter by Currier and Ives

The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak by Bierstadt

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Bingham

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