Art is an expression of human creativity and imagination, primarily in a visual form allowing the emotional power and beauty in all artwork from paintings to sculptures to be viewed. Art has been around since about 32,000-30,000 BCE. Around this period the emerging of cave paintings were discovered in places like Lascausx, France. Art has taught us to understand the history of humanity through the prehistoric period depictions of huge mammoths to todays contemporary abstractions, artist have confronted their place and time in art history and has also expressed universal human honesty for years. One artist who i believe have conqured the mastery in painting from within is the amazing William Keith, an artist who feels emotion and immediately
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There are these huge wood stomps pluging out the ground providing this non reality type image of nature-everything is colossal. William Keith was an artist who felt nature was what you make it, he often added rivers, lakes, etc to his paintings after returning to his art studio in San Francisco. Although, In the Kings River Canyon painting there is bright, beautiful sunny reflection down on nature-there's also this huge mountain with snow, which brings in this now cold scene, the snow is pure white seating on top of this huge grey mountain-connecting again to keiths prospective of nature- that nature is what you want it to …show more content…
Then there is the waterfall which is thie middle ground delivering this almost separate scene. The grass and wood stomps are my foreground in the painting. There is an ariel perspective beyond the mountains off into the far distance. Paintings like this also contained this political edge, because it was used to get merchants to come to the west from the east coast. These particular paintings were also hunged in the house of wealthy people. There is a vanishing point where the river is. This piece done by Keith was epic bringing together this sense of nature being the main attraction of life and human are just micro figures within
There are these huge wood stomps pluging out the ground providing this non reality type image of nature-everything is colossal. William Keith was an artist who felt nature was what you make it, he often added rivers, lakes, etc to his paintings after returning to his art studio in San Francisco. Although, In the Kings River Canyon painting there is bright, beautiful sunny reflection down on nature-there's also this huge mountain with snow, which brings in this now cold scene, the snow is pure white seating on top of this huge grey mountain-connecting again to keiths prospective of nature- that nature is what you want it to …show more content…
Then there is the waterfall which is thie middle ground delivering this almost separate scene. The grass and wood stomps are my foreground in the painting. There is an ariel perspective beyond the mountains off into the far distance. Paintings like this also contained this political edge, because it was used to get merchants to come to the west from the east coast. These particular paintings were also hunged in the house of wealthy people. There is a vanishing point where the river is. This piece done by Keith was epic bringing together this sense of nature being the main attraction of life and human are just micro figures within