Frederic Edwin Church- Grand Manan Island Bay of Fundy – 1852
Rise
Frederic Edwin Church Week at TechnoChitlins
Wikipedia:
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter[1] born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic natural phenomena that he saw during his travels to the Arctic and Central and South America. Church’s paintings put an emphasis on light and a romantic respect for natural detail. In his later years, Church painted classical Mediterranean and Middle Eastern scenes and cityscapes.[2]
After the darkness that is Goya, a little refreshment from the Hudson River School…
Love
Francisco de Goya- The Adoration Of The Name Of The Lord (1772)
Squad
Francisco de Goya- Execution Of The Defenders Of Madrid 3rd May 1808 (1814)
Horror
Francisco de Goya- Saturn Devouring One Of His Children (1823)
Chaos
Francisco de Goya- The Second Of May 1808 The Charge Of The Mamelukes (1814)
The Road to Serfdom
This gallery of Hayek’s “The Road to Serfdom” is inspired by a post on Instapundit. Click the pic to read.
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This was published after WW2, when the West had been eyeball-to-eyeball with Fascism and Socialism for decades, so the imagery is a little dated. The message is not, and is more needed now than ever in my lifetime.
The more ambitious among you may want to check out the book “The Road to Serfdom” by F. A. Hayek. It will scare you sober- or so I hope.