NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola gallery presents Shane McAdams and Christopher Saunders: The Fair And Open Face Of Heaven, an two person exhibition of paintings and works on paper. The Romantic poets regarded art as the bridge between nature and man, elevating the emotional response to nature into an expression of higher meaning and imbuing it with the ability to capture a moment that has passed. Keats writes in his poem To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent : To one who has been long in city pent, ‘Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven,—to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. Keats’ contrast of the city as prison and nature as nirvana was the Romantic belief that informed much of the art of his time, and had its American painting proponents in Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, and the painters of the Hudson River School, who sought to depict nature in a Utopian manner. McAdams and Saunders paintings represent the ineffable w