Thomas Cole was an artist of the Romanticism period who was notable for his outdoor adoration. ... Thomas Cole's, "The Oxbow," is an 1836 landscape painting of the Connecticut River from the Romanticism Era. ... "The Oxbow" reflects one of the main aspects of Romanticism, which is the love of nature. ...

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Woman with a Parrot by Gustave Courbet is a product of the Realism movement, a movement which, in a nutshell, encompasses pieces depicting life in its true and natural form. Unlike the movements that preceded, Realism has a sort of simplicity and straightforwardness associated with it. There is no...

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Realism represents figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in life, and is generally restricted to a movement that began in the mid-19th century in reaction to the highly subjective approach of romanticism. ...

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