The Hudson River School, By Thomas Cole

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The name of the work is The Hudson River School by Thomas Cole. It is a combination of Romanticism and Nationalism. It was made on the ground which is material that is used to support canvas or panel. The ground of this painting was consisted of a layer of underpaint in a white or tinted hue. The color of the ground unifies the artist's varied color palette. This work has a use of atmospheric perspective. By depicting the far away mountains as hazy and gray, the valuable tool of atmospheric perspective was used which gives the illusion of the far-off mountain range. The midground depicts some details that gives us visual clues that this part of the landscape is in between the background and the foreground. The detail in the leaves yet the

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