Oxbow Lake
Hello everyone! Today, I would like to introduce the oil painting "Oxbow Lake" created by the American painter Ke in 1833, which is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Thomas Cole, a famous American landscape painter, was one of the founders of the Hudson River School.
He is best known for his Romantic landscapes of New York and New England, such as White Mountain Canyon, Lake view of the Americas, and Oaksbow.
He also created a number of satirical paintings, including The Rise and Fall of Empires, Journey of Life and Architect's Dream.
Cole was born in England and immigrated to the United States in 1819.
He entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Initially worked as a portrait painter and sculptor.
In 1825, he settled in New York and successfully exhibited his first landscape paintings.
The oil painting "Oxbow Lake" also has an alias called "Landscape of Mount St. Yoke in Northampton, Massachusetts after the Storm".
To the right of the painting is a poetic landscape of rural plains with rivers in the shape of u-shapes, reminiscent of the "oxbow", a symbol of human control over nature.
The left slope of the painting is a mountain ravaged by thunderstorms.
The essence of this painting reflects the ambivalence of Thomas Cole's creation: he both admired the exploitation of nature by humans and feared that nature would be destroyed.
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