hudson river school landscape drawing
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The Hudson River School
• New York City based painters that began working in the 1850’s
• Thomas Cole is considered the founder of the group
• Albert Bierstadt and Frederick Church were other prominent painters from this era
• The artists created a standard for landscape painting called “idealized naturalism”
Composition
• These artists chose dramatic landscapes with the horizon line placed in the lower third of the page so that the sky is very large and visible
• The composition is made of foreground, middle ground and deep space
What We’ll Do
• Create a series of landscape sketches (today)
• Create TWO highly developed landscape drawings (next week)
• Use graphite and oil pastels
• Use the compositional strategies of the Hudson River School– Horizon Line placed in lower third of composition
– Distinct use foreground, middle ground and deep space to create a dramatic scene