11 oct. 1836 - 109. The Oxbow

Description:

Form:
-romanticism
-Manifest Destiny
-not based of a real place
-oil on canvas
Content:
-reverence for nature
-filled with life
-based on real life area
-divides the painting into two unequal sections
-one shows sublime view of land untouched by man (wild, untamed)
-other side shows land humankind has taken over (overtaken by agriculture)
-self portrait of himself wandering
Function:
-landscape painting
-shows respect for nature
Context:
-Northampton, Massachusetts
-artist: Thomas Cole (leader of Hudson River School)
-1836 CE (19th century)