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Visions of Paradise: The Hudson River School |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: James F. Cooper |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 2,278 Words, 13,872 Characters |
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This autumn a breathtaking new retrospective opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School is the first major exhibition in forty years to display the landscape paintings of the Hudson River School. This stunning collection of nineteenth-century masterpieces by Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederic E. Church, Jasper F. Cropsey, John F. Kensett, George Inness, Sanford R. Gifford, and others provides a rare opportunity to gain a cultural overview of a past era. Simultaneously, it offers inspiration for our own times.
In contrast to the existential alienation that characterizes so much of twentieth-century American art, the works of the Hudson River School shine with spiritual order and beauty. The astonishingly high att...
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...ts, it offers an example of an art form that has the ability to communicate values on the highest aesthetic level. The Hudson River School should not be perceived merely as a regionalist style confined to one time and place, but as a reminder that artists once spoke of universal values in a language that was passionate and spiritual. There is no reason to think this could not happen again.
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