Frederick Edwin Church - 1861
couldn't care less about the flag
the painting/lithograph is beautiful
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View original on sh.itjust.workscouldn't care less about the flag
the painting/lithograph is beautiful
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The flag is the image. You can't love this painting despite the flag without totally missing the point. Given the year it was made, this has to be a painting about America's Civil War. In this seemingly mundane landscape painting, I see so much blood and strife on the horizon for the country, the dawn of a bloody fight. Fitting, as it would have been painted early in the war.
missing the point was my point. Luckily he painted pointlessly beautiful subjects too :)
There's a flag?
Either way, beautiful painting.
Took me forever to see the flag. Beautiful picture despite it.