American artists have reflected new American ideas through their radical and new ideas of impressionist, fauvist and cubist paintings, by exploration of different techniques and ways of artistic expressiveness. This surprised many American viewers who were accustomed to more conventional art. Early American paintings captured images of places, individuals, and events as one of the few ways to communicate the history of the United States. Americans artists have expressed their thoughts, feelings, and ideas concerning important events in U.S. history through visual art, music, and literary masterpieces thus shaping American culture and impacting the world.
To declare boundaries between the thirteen colonies and the Appalachian Mountains, so American colonists couldn’t create tension with the French and Native Americans who live across the mountains.
