American Art History. Hudson River School Painters

Running head: AMERICAN ART HISTORY
Hudson River School Painters
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Hudson River School Painters
The Hudson River School painters wanted to connect nature and morality. They painted pictures on natural things and showed the person of America how it was a moral thing to conserve the nature since it was a way of communicating to God. In essence, they were predicting how the civilization of America would lead to destruction of the nature and advocated for its conservation through their paintings (Hanson, 2001). By working in pairs, these painters implied that it was only through unity that the nature could be conserved hence America would please God since nature was all that is glorious around us.
(This shows a painting by Thomas Cole on his view about the Arnos).
Another painter named George Catlin who had left law and went into Art painted about the Native Americans. He described the lifestyle of the Native Americans, their costumes, and a complete collection of their manufactures and weapons, and to perpetuate them in a gallery unique, for the use and instruction of future ages (Federal Style Architecture, n d). His paintings taught a lot on the use of nature, its conservation and the way some lifestyles were lost in the name of civilization.
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(Mah-to-toh-pe by George Catlin 1833).
Today Americans can see these paintings and know how much they have left the cultures of the Native Americans. Infact his concerns were about how the Americans had a negative image about their natives (Hanson,...