1. American progress through pain
... , astonishing population growth and urbanization. The artistic community was called into action, producing whole schools of painting, which glorified the development of the nation. Starting with the Hudson River School founded by Thomas Cole, the nation obtained a visual representation of Manifest Destiny. While the shift to landscape painting in Europe at about the same time was seen as a move away from ... Pacific railroad lines. In the right-hand bottom corner, two men are busy plowing, a symbol of the American agricultural ideal. This way of life, that of the farmers who had founded ...
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