Question

The nineteenth-century American artist Asher Brown Durand’s painting Kindred Spirits is a particularly good example of the use of which form of perspective?

Answer 1

Answer: Atmospheric.

Explanation:

Atmospheric perspective also referred to as aerial perspective is the method by which illusions of depth are made in paintings by modulation of colors to show effect of changes by the atmosphere on the colour of things seen from afar.

Durand used a monochromatic color scheme, using a varieties of a specific set of colors, which shows off a soothing feeling to its viewers. Usage of several shades of green and brown does not provoke any feelings of happiness or sadness but rather of serenity and calmness. Durand's work is very realistic, it does not have any exotic or abstract figures. Asher Brown Durand created Kindred Spiritsin 1849 to honor his late teacher Thomas Cole who died in 1848. Jonathon Sturges who was a former business partner of Cole told Durand to create the painting so that it could be given to William Cullen Bryant, Cole’s 3 Patrick Frank.

Brown Durand’s painting set in an idealized, composite landscape constructed from several sites in the Catskill mountain range. Kindred Spirits is a depiction of an essay of the Hudson River School of painting. Asher Brown Durand depicted this imaginary site with naturalistic style, careful attention to detail, and mastery of light and color to praise his mentor Cole. Where Cole stands with his friend, the poet William Cullen Bryant as “kindred spirits,” representative of the harmonious intertwine of their respective artistic mediums of poetry and the visual arts.