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The romanticism period occurred around 1800 to 1860. The romanticism period was started in France and Britain. During this period: men, women, and children worked 14 hour shifts out in the brutal sun. The first movement in the United States was the Hudson River School of dramatic landscape painting. One of the many talented artists of this time is Frederic Edwin Church. Frederic was born in 1826 in Hartford, Connecticut and died in 1900 while living in New York City. From 1844 to 1846, Church studied with Thomas Cole a landscape painter and accompanied him in sketching in the Catskill Mountains and the Berkshires of Massachusetts. After Church’s time with Cole, he established a studio in New York City and quickly received a reputation. Some …show more content…

A recurring thing I have seen in all the paintings is people. In the Rainy Season in the Tropics, Heart of the Andes, and The Andes of Ecuador all have two people in them that you almost miss them if you don’t take a real close look at it. When I looked at other paintings of Churches, I have seen many with people in them. Very few do not have a person in them. Church wanted to get a good balance between geographical and botanical variety. Many of his paintings are of places that he had sketched while he was on his travels to the tropics of South America. Most of his paintings have some sort of plant life, water, and the sky. The details of the sky play a big part in his paintings. Church’s painting Rainy Season in the Andes has a rainbow and The Andes of Ecuador has a sunset in its background. Paintings of this time period were normally not as bright and of nature like Church’s were. Church uses bright colors in all the paintings he has. Many painting during the Romanticism period are not brightly colored and have multiple people in them unlike Church’s works. Some other artwork of his that applies with the bright colors and have people in them are the following: View of Cotopaxi, Hooker’s Journey to Hartford, and Lower Falls, Rochester. One thing that I noticed in all his paintings is that you can see all details clearly no matter if they are in the distance or real close

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