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The second generation of Hudson River School painters left the New York area to explore more far-flung regions of America. Their painting documented westward expansion and reinforced the concept of Manifest Destiny.
New York school, those painters who participated in the development of contemporary art from the early 1940s in or around New York City. During and after World War II, leadership in avant-garde art shifted from war-torn Europe to New York, and the New York school maintained a dominant position in.
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The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the English émigré Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial.
Owing its success to a fusion of European aesthetics and American desire for social relevancy, the New York School was one of the most influential modern art movements, and helped the city to replace Paris as the world's centre of avant-garde art, reflecting the creativity and financial muscle of the New World.
Jul 5, 2016 · The school was founded by a group of dissatisfied students at the National Academy of Design and their teacher, Lemuel Wilmarth. At the time, the Academy was considered the main art school in New York.
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