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A common thread among the painters of the Hudson River School is that, although most of them based their paintings on travels taken personally, they portray landscapes that don’t actually exist as they are represented, but that are instead profoundly altered by the artist to fit their aesthetic sensibilities, in accordance with the concept of the picturesque. Such penchant was inspired not only by its proposer, the British art theorist William Gilpin but for some successful early adopters, such as the wildly famous J. W. M. Turner, known as the painter of light.
In keeping with that ideal, of manipulating the landscape’s composition to better fit into the artist’s aesthetic preferences, this oil on canvas finished in 1859 creatively portrays the Equatorian wilderness, complete with the snow-capped Mount Chimborazo in the background, partially hidden by the lower slopes that frame the vista. Created from a composite of sketches and watercolors made during the artist’s second voyage to South America, the piece is immense, measuring over three meters in width, and is currently in show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
Occupying the very center of the piece is a pool of clear river water, fed by a waterfall, which seems to come all the way down from the Andes, running through the verdant jungle pictured. It is an imposing scene, seen from a high vantage point, like that of a bird, but that nonetheless is treated with extreme attention to detail, each leaf painted in with care. Such is the wealth and depth of detail that, if in the foreground we can see the feathers on a bird’s tail, far in the background we can make out a small Spanish colonial village, nestled on the banks of the upper pool, just above the waterfall.
Even though the human presence can be seen here and there, it exists concealed by the jungle which covers the setting. As such, there is no civilization per se, but instead, a smidgen of humanity that only serves to underline the dominating aspect of the tropical wilderness further. Of those few traces of human interference, the cross in the foreground is the most obvious, which would be an indication of the unification between religion and nature. A landscape, so to speak, blessed by God with beauty.
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If you have any request to alter your reproduction of The Heart of the Andes 1859, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of The Heart of the Andes 1859 that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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