Hudson River School

The other day, I went to Norton Art Gallery with my boyfriend. He had never been there before so I thought this would be a good activity for us to do together, and to do some school work. I thought that it would be so fun to show him around the exhibits and sound all smart using vocabulary from my diligent studying for my comm midterm.
The featured art exhibit was Hudson River School. The exhibit was composed of oil paintings depicting landscapes of the Hudson River area. I have never been a huge fan of landscapes. I can appreciate the skill and patience it takes to complete the painting, but rarely has a landscape painting resonated with my soul. My favorite painting was this one of a mother deer with two fawns; animals I can relate too. I started to become worried that, like myself, my boyfriend was going to get board and wonder off. To my surprise however, he was liked the painting. You see, my boyfriend moved here like two years ago for New York City and could recognize some of the landscapes. He had more fun telling me what location each painting was of. I have never been good at using landmarks to identify national parks in photos and therefore I was impressed with his ability to just look at the landscape and give there location.
The over all experience was good. The paintings were very good landscape paintings, and I had fun walking in the azalea garden. However, I did not get to show off my impressive art analyses skills and flaunt my intellect. My boyfriend however, got a chance to remember his old life in NYC and show me up in geography.