Hudson River School (jan 1, 1825 – jan 1, 1870)

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With the Second Great Awakening came a surge of new art and literature that reflected the themes of the new era. Genre painting became widely popular among artists - an art style that portrayed the everyday life of ordinary people, such as people voting and riding on riverboats. George Caleb Bingham was known for his genre paintings, which featured people carrying out domestic chores. William S, Mount focused on lively rural compositions, and artists such as Frederick Church and Thomas Cole used their artistic talent to emphasize the beauty of popular American landmarks such as the Hudson River in New York. The Hudson River School, which was the first American school od painting established by Thomas Cole himself, encouraged the romantic age’s fascination with the beauty found within the natural world. The school combined a nationalistic appreciation of the United States with a celebration of the beauty of the natural American landscape, which differed from the Eurocentric colonial art of the 17th and 18th century, which focused on themes such as colonialism.

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