(CFU) Romanticism/Transcendentalism - Art Analysis

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Painting of poet John Keats, by Joseph Severn (1821)

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The First Harvest in the Wilderness, by Asher B. Durand (1885)

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Thomas Cole, 'The Mountain Ford'

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Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran (1876)

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The Voyage of Life: Old Age (1842) by Thomas Cole

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Currier and Ives, Across the Continent: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way", 1868

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Kindred Spirits (depicting the painter Thomas Cole, who had died in 1848, and his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant, in the Catskill Mountains) by Asher Brown Durand

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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818) by Caspar David Friedrich

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Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix (1830)

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American Progress by John Gast (1872)

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Carefully "read" the painting above. This is the classic “manifest destiny” painting in most history textbooks. If you google manifest destiny it even pops up:


Answer both parts of this question in an open response below:

9a.) Is this concept of manifest destiny a romantic or transcendentalist ideology? How can you tell? Analyze the painting and/or the definition in your response

9b.) In your opinion, is manifest destiny a positive or negative interpretation of this ideology?