Hudson River School
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- proper noun
- /ˈhʌdzən ˈrɪvər skuːl/
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Escuela del río Hudson
- The figures in Bennett's photographs, as in so many Hudson River School paintings, gaze upon the landscape with romantic eyes: viewers are invited to share in an inspirational moment (Figure 5).
- Hudson River School painters
- Hudson River School landscapes
- Hudson River School painting
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Along with his followers, he founded the Hudson River School, which worked with these motifs.
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And as a growing middle class had more leisure time for activities of this nature, so did they have more of a taste for works of the Hudson River School.
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But that idea of nature as a place to recharge is something that Americans adapted early on and was reflected in the works of the Hudson River School.
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In the 1830s, artists like Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand were just beginning to define the Hudson River School of painting, taking trips into the Catskills to sketch and become inspired.
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"There was a strong cultural belief at the time, certainly shared by Cole and Durand, that a retreat into nature was a refuge, a healing endeavor," says Linda S. Ferber, Senior Art Historian at the New-York Historical Society, and curator of the upcoming exhibition Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School.
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The natural beauty of New York inspired the noted Hudson River School of American landscape painters.
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Indeed, America's first school of painting was born in the Catskills as the Hudson River School of landscape painting.
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Paintings of scenery in this region form a large part of the output of the Hudson River School.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is compositional: 'Hudson River' names a place and 'school' (in the sense of a group of artists) denotes a collective, so a learner who knows the parts can infer it refers to a group of artists associated with the Hudson River. Although the precise historical period and stylistic details (19th-century landscape painters) require background knowledge, the core meaning as an artist group is directly derivable from the constituents.
Etymology
The Hudson River School name comes from painters in the 1800s who worked near the Hudson River and painted wild rivers, trees, and big skies. People used the word school to mean a close group of artists with the same style, so the phrase came to mean 'a group of 19th-century American landscape painters'.