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Thomas Cole's Course Of Empire

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Thomas Cole’s series Course of Empire is about the impact that humans have in nature and it’s cycle. It is clear that Cole is trying to show this cycle in his five paintings of nature, human growth, the glory of civilization, its destruction, and then the ruins. In the five paintings the setting remains the same so that the viewer can see how much humans have created and altered the nature.

The first painting in the series is nature at it’s purest form the vegetation is overgrown and wild the sky is full of clouds, the animals are running free, giving the sense of an uncontrollable life force. The most important aspect of the first painting is that the humans are living solely off the land. The man in bottom left is hunting the wild animals

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