Here is found an exhibition of artworks created during the Era of Romanticism, featuring various landscapes of Latin America. Romanticism in Latin America bloomed later than its European relative, but the fruits were no less breathtaking and imaginative. This gallery features artists from different cultures, but with the same muse in mind.
The Captive, Juan Manuel Blanes, 1880, From the collection of: Colección AMALITA
Created in 1880, Juan Manuel Blanes's La Cautiva is an example of romanticism in Uruguaya. The background of the piece depicts warriors on horse back galloping towards a camp, while the foreground shows a man in awe of what appears to be an apparition. This oil on canvas painting uses color and emphasis to draw attention to the drama portrayed. The warrior and apparition are both colored with shades of white and gray, which gives them both a death like quality of have lost the color in the pigment of their skin. Blanes draws attention to the two individuals by placing them front and center of the painting.
The Heights of San Isidro, Prilidiano Pueyrredón, 1865, From the collection of: Colección AMALITA
Created in 1865, this work by Prilidiano Pueyrredon employs space and balance to depict a country side in Argentina. Focused primarily on the large tree, the wagon and the cow in the foreground, Pueyrredon painted a low horizon adding more depth and presence to the majesty of the heavens in the backdrop. This balance brings more attention to the stromy weather on the horizon topped by breaks in the clouds, which is allowing light to radiate upon the scene, drawing the viewer to a tangible sensation of the coming moisture preceded by the calm beauty of present weather.
South American Landscape, Frederic Edwin Church, 1873/1873, From the collection of: Delaware Art Museum
Rainy Season in the Tropics, Frederic Edwin Church, 1866, From the collection of: de Young museum
Pichincha, Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826 - 1900, 1867, From the collection of: Philadelphia Museum of Art
South American Landscape, Frederic Edwin Church, 1854, From the collection of: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Two Hummingbirds with an Orchid, Martin Johnson Heade, 1875/1875, From the collection of: High Museum of Art
The Fall of Tequendama, Near Bogotá, New Granada, Frederic Church (American, b.1826, d.1900), 1854, From the collection of: Cincinnati Art Museum
Scene Among the Andes, Frederic Edwin Church, 1854, From the collection of: National Academy of Design
Cotopaxi, Frederic Edwin Church, 1855, From the collection of: Smithsonian American Art Museum
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