Landscape Consciousness in Art Essay

The landscape consciousness of the America of the 19th century was distinguished by the desire to contemplate nature in its totality. People admired not individual elements, for example, a lake, a tree, or a mountain but a holistic picture. Those views on the beauty that were promoted at that time were based on simpler aesthetic principles. As a result, elementarism inherent in the objects of art became a characteristic feature of many works where authors deliberately combined different colors and did not focus on individual composite components. This approach changed over time, but for the 19th century, details were not typical.