(CFU) Romanticism/Transcendentalism - Art Analysis
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11 questions
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Question 1
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Painting of poet John Keats, by Joseph Severn (1821)
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Question 2
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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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Question 7
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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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Question 8
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Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818) by Caspar David Friedrich
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Question 9
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Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix (1830)
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Question 10
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American Progress by John Gast (1872)
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Question 11
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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?