Perverson Is The Love We Feel When Others Feel Love

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This series of landscape paintings by Shay Kun draws heavily on a very specific historic period and location, namely the Hudson River School of the 19th century. Kun's landscapes particularly reference Thomas Cole's (1801-1848) reverent paeans to nature and Albert Bierstadt's (1830-1902) towering Yosemite cliff faces, awestruck visions of the sublime in the American West. Both artists focused on idealized pastoral landscapes, whose romanticism is evident in the synthetic composition, and held values that were rapidly dismissed and out of fashion even in their own lifetime.