IndividualExpressionThroughNatureNC

Individual Expression Through Nature

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“Such was the sympathy of Nature-that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illuminated by higher truth-with the bliss oof these two spirits! Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world” (Hawthorne, 177).

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[|Forest Expression 1]  [|Forest expression 2]  [|forest expression 3]         <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Forest Expression 4]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 17.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beginning with the late -18th to the mid -19th century, new Romantic attitude begun to characterize culture and many art works in Western civilization. It started as an artistic and intellectual movement that emphasized a revulsion against established values (social order and religion). Romanticism exalted individualism, subjectivism, irrationalism, imagination, emotions and nature - emotion over reason and senses over intellect. Since they were in revolt against the orders, they favored the revival of potentially unlimited number of styles (anything that aroused them). Romantic artists were fascinated by the nature, the genius, their passions and inner struggles, their moods, mental potentials, the heroes. They investigated human nature and personality, the folk culture, the national and ethnic origins, the medieval era, the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the occult, the diseased, and even satanic. Romantic artist had a role of an ultimate egoistic creator, with the spirit above strict formal rules and traditional procedures. He had imagination as a gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth. The Hudson River School was the first American school of landscape painting active from 1835-1870. The subjects of their art were romantic spectacles from the Hudson River Valley and upstate New York. The exhibition put on at the Art Institute featured Artists that excelled at the Hudson school, Thomas Cole and Winslow Homer to name a few.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Individuals in Nature 1] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|"Peach Blossoms"] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|_] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|"A Distant View of Niagara Falls"]

Wall 1: Puritanism

Wall 3: The foundation's transition to becoming community oriented

Wall 4: The American Future: where dreams may or may not come true

Wall 2 Reflection and References