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Landscape Drawing & Composition The Hudson River School

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Landscape Drawing & Composition

The Hudson River School

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”

Albert Bierstadt “Indians Spear Fishing” 1862

Albert Bierstadt, “Lake Tahoe” 1868

Albert Bierstadt, “Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie” 1866

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

Thomas Cole, “The Oxbow” 1836

Thomas Cole, “The Oxbow” 1836

Horizon Line

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