Albert Bierstadt Art Analysis

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Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is one the paintings of Albert Bierstadt. It display at Washington National Museum of American Art and Painted in 1868, with scenic canvas oil. Albert Bierstadt paintings are all based on the places he visited himself. Mount Washington from the Valley of Conway is a painting from John Frederick Kensett's. It’s painted in 1869 and he used canvas oil in his painting as well. This painting shows the America's hopes and ambitions. Both Albert Bierstadt and John Frederick were member of Hudson River School. Hudson River School was an American art movement started by a group of landscape painters. All of these painters have something in common and that is nature. Nature try to show or tech us how live …show more content…
There are few buildings and a church in the right corner of painting. House roofs are the only view that we have from the village. Village been made in middle of the trees and around that there is farmland. In background there is massive Mount Washington that cover the whole area. Painting give the viewer a sense of peace and motions. It feels like there is no trouble or problem in this place. Under one of the threes there are few ships that are wandering around and try to use the sun light. On the same road or path there is guy waking slowly towards the village. There is an interaction between man and nature that painter try to show in this landscape. Rather than showing a normal view from untamed nature painter try to show the relationship between man and nature back in the nineteen century. When technology find its way to our life we lost our connection to nature. We care less about it and with no regrets were distorting it. “One of the distrusting facts of history is that so many civilizations collapse. Few people, however, least of all our politicians, realize that a primary cause of the collapse of those societies has been the destruction of the environmental resources on which they depended” (diamond, 362). That been said from lots other writes and scientist however our community don’t even try to save the nature. As mush as we need nature we can’t live without it. There is balance

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