(CFU) Romanticism/Transcendentalism - Art Analysis
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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 romanticor transcendentalistideology? 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?
Painting of poet John Keats, by Joseph Severn (1821)
Romantic
Transcendentalist
The First Harvest in the Wilderness, by Asher B. Durand (1885)
Romantic
Trascendentalist
Thomas Cole, 'The Mountain Ford'
Romantic
Trascendentalist
Albert Bierstadt, Mount Corcoran (1876)
Romantic
Transcendentalist
The Voyage of Life: Old Age (1842) by Thomas Cole
Romantic
Transcendentalist
Currier and Ives, Across the Continent: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way", 1868
Romantic
Transcendentalist
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
Romantic
Trascendentalist
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818) by Caspar David Friedrich
Romantic
Trascendentalist
Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix (1830)
Romantic (hint: revolution, rebellion, revolt)
Transcendentalist (hint: social reform, social change, societal growth)
American Progress by John Gast (1872)
Romantic (hint: revolution, rebellion, revolt)
Transcendentalist (hint: social reform, social change, societal growth)