The Oxbow was completed by Thomas Cole in 1836 and now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting moves from a dark, dense wilderness engulfed in thunderstorms on the left, to a cultivated landscape with a winding river. Cole contemplates the dichotomy of the untamed wilderness and land cultivated by man. Cole did not shy away from portraying the two as opposites and showing how the cultivation would destroy the natural wilderness. As a result, the two never met in his painting.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Oxbow Cole
The Oxbow was completed by Thomas Cole in 1836 and now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting moves from a dark, dense wilderness engulfed in thunderstorms on the left, to a cultivated landscape with a winding river. Cole contemplates the dichotomy of the untamed wilderness and land cultivated by man. Cole did not shy away from portraying the two as opposites and showing how the cultivation would destroy the natural wilderness. As a result, the two never met in his painting.
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