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Durand's Kindred Spirits
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Art
- Hudson River School of Thomas Cole (1801-48) in Catskills 1825
- "In the pure blue sky is the highest sublime... All is deep, unbroken repose up there voiceless, motionless..."
- idealized, not literal - landscape affected character - color affected emotion
- Kindred Spirits painted by Asher Durand of Cole, Cullen Bryant outdoors
- Durand was president of National Academy of Design 1850-61
- American Art Union in New York after 1838, awarded prizes, published monthly catalog, 18,000 subscribers paid $5 annual dues
- artist-exploreres Frederick Church, Albert Bierstadt
- Genre artists - ordinary activity of ordinary people
- "the idea is the essence of art" - realistic style, but idealized subjects, to uplift, reform, educate, inspire
- William S. Mount painted rural Long Island
- "never paint for the few, but for the many"
- The Rustic Dance won American Institute of NY prize 1830
- Catching Crabs, Cider Making, Herald in the Country
- George C. Bingham, the Missouri artist - river scenes popular in East
Currier & Ives
- 1852 partnership - mass-produced 3 lithographic prints per week priced from $4 to 15 cents
- new steel plates replaced less durable copper lithographs
- themes of progress, technology, heroes, Protestant ethic
- rural small town life, sex roles idealized
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