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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
Thomas Cole
1 Lut 1801 - 11 Lut 1848
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| From the height of Mount Holyoke, Thomas Cole unfurls a panorama that became one of the manifestos of the American landscape. To the left, a hillside still lies in the shadow of a passing storm — tangled, dramatic, wild. To the right, the valley of the Connecticut River spreads into a calm, sunlit mosaic of fields and farms, while the river itself traces the famous, almost complete horseshoe bend from which the painting takes its popular name. The canvas is built on the tension of two worlds. On one side, untamed nature: a fallen, lightning-shattered tree, roiling clouds, a steep slope. On the other, a landscape tamed by human hands, ordered and bathed in light after the storm has passed. Cole leads the eye along this boundary like a moralist, urging us to weigh what remains of the wilderness once civilization begins to write its story upon the land. This is a painting of a pivotal moment — not only meteorological but historical. The storm departs, the sun returns, and the America of the early nineteenth century stands at a crossroads between primeval forest and advancing settlement. Cole, alert to the beauty of wild nature and at once aware of its fragility, painted here a landscape that is both hymn and warning. If you look closely at the mountainside on the right, you can spot a tiny figure of the artist himself at his easel, in a straw hat, glancing toward the viewer. Cole painted the work in 1836 for exhibition, and today "The Oxbow" is one of the icons of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. |
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DETAILS Title: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow Original title: View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow Artist: Thomas Cole Date: 1836 Place of origin: Stany Zjednoczone Type : Painting Technique: Oil on canvas Genre: Landscape Style: Romanticism Form: Painting |
Thomas Cole - View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow
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