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Do you know Hudson River School ? This is an artistic movement from the nineteenth century influenced by romantism, one of the first American artistic movements. It provided great paintings of american landscapes. You can check some examples (from Bierstadt and Moran, my favorites) in the attachments. You have other examples in the following link.

A majority of Black Americans adhere to a collectivist, racist philosophy. And it's not because of slavery, or the Jim Crow era. It's because American culture and politics sanctions and rewards that kind of attitude: black leaders who are racist and collectivist are embraced and promoted, those who try to stand up to it shunned...by American society in general (the media, academia, the corporate world, and the government), not just Blacks. And they vote Democrat because that is the party that panders more to that racist ideology. As for the posts trying to justify collectivism and racism among blacks today, by citing slavery and past discrimination, well...you're not Objectivists. Objectivism doesn't make a special exception, allowing people who's ancestors were victims to disregard reason and individual rights. If it did, then we could all find a reason to band together along racial or ethnic lines, and blame our problems on whoever looks like our ancestors' past oppressors. But that would be incredibly stupid.

And these, which didn't make it through on the last post. These are all details from the same painting. It's nude, so I'll include it as a link and not a picture: Link.

Hi, Been such a long time since I've posted here. Stumbled upon a post from this forum tonight and decided to check my old thread. I've recently finished a few paintings. I'll post a couple that do not have nudity and one detail shot from the painting with the nude so that the picture doesn't catch anyone at work off guard. I'd appreciate it if anyone is interested and wants to follow me if you visit either my blog &subscribe or my Facebook page and 'Like' it. I post a lot of sketches, pictures of work in progress and various thoughts about art philosophy on both. I also write about art philosophy a lot on my blog and my page and I enjoy feedback. So here are the links: www.facebook.com/ifat.glassman and www.ifatart.com or www.ifatart.com/blog Here are some Latest artworks. Cheers, Ifat