A pintura de paisagem e a formação da ciência geomorfológica nos Estados Unidos no século XIX
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21579/issn.2526-0375_2016_n2_p35-47Keywords:
Landscape paintings, geomorphology, American West, John Wesley Powell, Hudson River School.Abstract
This article aims to present the relationship between painting landscape and the formation of geomorphological science in the USA in the nineteenth century. The case study taken for granted has been the Hudson River School in line for to its importance in the landscape painting scenario when artists accompanied many expeditions to the American West. Influenced by Lyell´s uniformitarianism and the researches of Geology and Geomorphology, two artists have turned out to be noteworthy - Stanford Gifford and Thomas Moran – due to the painting of large geomorphological landscapes, which illustrated the main theories of terrain evolution in the American West such as the John Powell.
