" [the] romantic landscape [which] covers the gamut between the Pastoral - inhabited landscape: comfortable and relatively tame, with shepherds and peasants - and the Sublime - wild nature: vast and powerful, inspiring terror and awe.
The Sublime is wonderfully represented by Cole and Bierstadt. [Albert] Bierstadt in particular, in a generation when the West was opening up to travel, sums up supremely well the new attitude of appreciation for the vast, untamable reaches of the wilderness. His landscapes are a veritable definition of the sublime in nature."
Here is an example of the Romantic Sublime style in watercolor on mixed-media paper. Artist Carlos Herrera.
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| "When the Earth Was New." |
