Computer Animation Arts

" Frederic Edwin Church went first to the tropics and volcanoes of South America, when American artists of the mid 19th century usually went to Europe or the western frontier in order to expand their repertoire... I n 1844, at the age of 18... he became the famous Hudson River School painter  Thomas Cole's   only pupil.   By the early 1850's, Church was not only oil painting views of specific American places with topographical exactitude, he was also combining separate elements of meticulously detailed scenery into landscapes of heroic breadth and depth. Church traveled from the arctic to the tropics making detailed sketches in search of material for his elegant oil paintings. His oil paintings were often extremely large and they enthralled crowds with their realistic, technical virtuosity". from theworldartist.com