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The Course of Empire: Thomas Cole's Warning to America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA2bnof3-D8 ^
| February 9, 2012
| Robb Bomboy
Posted on 06/27/2015 7:34:46 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Joe 6-pack
The picture of the Statue of Liberty from “Planet of the Apes” seems suitable here.
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06/27/2015 7:44:21 AM PDT
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Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Don Corleone
Actually, this picture is probably more suitable. Next stop on the SCOTUS train:
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06/27/2015 7:48:33 AM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Albert Bierstadt was my favorite of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The first 3 below are his. The last one, Frederic Church, another of the very best.
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06/27/2015 7:51:58 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: Don Corleone
Or this from LOGAN"S RUN.
To: ETL
Yes, I’m a fan of the Hudson River painters as well, but I was posting this more for the political/cultural relevance than for art historical reasons. The video points out Cole’s antipathy to Jacksonian democracy and it’s threat to stable republicanism.
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06/27/2015 7:55:22 AM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Fallout 3
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06/27/2015 7:59:56 AM PDT
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BlueLancer
(Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.)
To: ETL
"Our only means of judging the future is the past. We see that nations have sprung from obscurity, risen to glory and decayed. Their rise in general has been marked by virtue, their decadence by vice, vanity and licentiousness. Let us Beware."
~Thomas Cole
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06/27/2015 8:02:28 AM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
I figured that, or something like that. I just look for any cheap opportunity to showcase these folks’ amazing talents. :)
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06/27/2015 8:09:17 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
If you were going to showcase Church, you should have posted his, “Twilight in the Wilderness,” which is truly his best work. I’ve seen it in person, and he somehow took a piece of canvas and made it glow. Viewing it in person is really the only reason for anybody to go to Cleveland, but it is worth it.
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06/27/2015 8:12:29 AM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Re: "Twilight in the Wilderness"
As incredible as it is, I don't know if I would say it's his best, though. He and some of the others were such over-the-top great painters.
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06/27/2015 8:31:40 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: Joe 6-pack
Another nice one by Church...
I have a lot of these paintings on my PC, but didn't label many of them, and so I don't know who did what. I'd have to look it up elsewhere.
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Mountains of Ecuador - Frederic Church
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06/27/2015 8:41:51 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
I recall vividly these great landscapes of the West in which I grew up. The immense vastness of the natural beauty just fills and thrills the soul. It is the backdrop upon which our lives of Liberty have been painted and I can’t help but wonder that of course these folks who clamor for the destructive influences do so because they never had the experience. In the parts of our country these folks come from one never gets to experience that stirring of the soul.
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06/27/2015 8:45:29 AM PDT
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wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: ETL
As something of dilettante artist in my own right, I've long been fascinated by Bierstadt's treatment of water (and wildlife) in
Seal Rock...
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06/27/2015 8:47:52 AM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Church wasn't bad with water himself...
Niagara
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06/27/2015 8:59:32 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: wastoute
Not sure who did this one. But it's probably Bierstadt or Church.
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06/27/2015 9:01:50 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
I’ve seen that one in person as well...it is a truly impressive work.
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06/27/2015 9:04:54 AM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: ETL
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06/27/2015 9:10:43 AM PDT
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wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: Joe 6-pack
Niagara Falls, from the American Side by Frederic Edwin Church
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06/27/2015 9:19:30 AM PDT
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ETL
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To: ETL
As I recall, Church’s paintings were considered so accurate, there were some geologists who actually used them when calculating the erosion rates of the falls.
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06/27/2015 9:22:40 AM PDT
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Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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