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Frederick Edwin Church's M. T Ktaadn And The Maine Woods
Frederick Edwin Church’s “M.t Ktaadn” uses scaling and colors to demonstrate that the mountain is more important than civilization. This painting is typical because he has painted M.t Ktaadn before. “Frederic Edwin Church traveled to northern Maine soon after the publication of Henry David Thoreau’s essay ‘Ktaadn and the Maine Woods’ ”(Wilmerding). tHIS EXPLAINS that anyhting related wit mounatins he will go and paint it.The tall mountain stays outside of the bounds of cultivation this demonstrates that nature and civilization have their own division line. The sunset has a pink glow that bathes the land it illustrates neutrality in this painting. Civilization or nature do not cause a threat to each other. Duran uses scaling to make the mountain
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