Resumen de La imatge del nou món
Images of the New World. The American landscape painting of the 19th century is practically unknown in Europe. In this article we summarize the artists and the most emblematic works of this period: from Thomas Cole’s allegorical painting and the School of the Hudson River through Luminism and up to the watercolours of Winslow Homer, predecessor of Modernism. Although to a certain extent the notion of America as a New World was immersed in European culture, such a notion led to an increase in the romantic values of representing nature. Painting from this epoch cannot be deprived of its history: the young North American nation, its political ideals marked by the Declaration of Independence, its demographic expansion towards the West and the tremendous impact the Civil War had on the people. All these factors are reflected in the character of the painters’ works, who with photographers, topographers and cartographers, became explorers with unconscious scientific aspirations.
