1st Strengths and philosophies behind the movement:

At the beginning of the 19th Century, when America was new. The cities are new. The government was new. Infrastructure was new. His spirit was back. And a new generation of painters was about to capture on canvas. But their origin, like many aspects of the country can be traced across the Atlantic to Europe, in this case, the movement of Romanticism.

Diffuse across the continent to serve during the last century, and the artistic core of poetry, painting, architecture and even cause it replaces traditionally restrictive approach, intellectual and material, the life with a contemplation and expression, especially the impressive features , as its vast forests and sky without limits. This, according to this philosophy by a source much larger than the viewer will be created, and it took his soul, without limiting to connect with her. Finished intellectual understanding, it was concluded, was not the opponents for endless creations.

Artistic works are an expression of what can be served by man together with his origin, his origins, namely informed that he started to (re) realize that it was a combination of physical, intellectual and emotional, and it was the latter which to replace it with emotion to reason, to win a new relationship with nature allowed in the process. » Read more: The Hudson River School of Painters