In the two paintings by Gerogia O’Keefe and Salomon von Ruysdael, use the elements of art to create their pieces. Georgia O’Keeffe used bold color and enlargements in her piece. These elements are used to expand the artwork, and to show more detail on the natural art of America. Her piece was painted in the colors Red, white, and blue, also an element to represent the time frame in America. This was meant to portray a time when American artist wanted to express the American style as a subject to their pieces of art. She wanted to symbolize what America was. Instead of making a typical American landscape, to show the beauty of America, she took another approach. She took a battered cow skull to represent how far America had come and what we
