Visual Realism In The Concert And Yosemite Valley

The general conception of visual realism that I believe best suits Vermeer’s The Concert and The Music Lesson and Bierstadt’s Yosemite Valley, would be the use of pictorial depth cues to portray visual realism. Both painters used pictorial depth cues to create a strong sense of visual realism that helped draw fascination into their paintings. Without the use of the pictorial depth cues, the paintings would not have appeared as if they were realistic and definitely would not have been questioned if they were creating an illusion. Personally, I believe that the pictorial cues that helped Vermeer the most with creating a sense of visual realism in both The Concert and The Music Lesson were linear perspective and size perspective. Linear perspective when paired with size …show more content…
Bierstadt produced the beautiful landscape painting of Yosemite at sunrise in such a lovely manner. Having gone to Yosemite before, I know what the view of the lovely valley looks like at sunrise, and Bierstadt captured the scene perfectly. This was because of his use of atmospheric perspective, which brought vivid detailing to the darkened trees and created the sunrise in the backdrop using a blend of colors to blur out details of further granite formations while making it appear as though the sunrise is creating this illusion. Bierstadt’s use of color perspective created a strong sense of realism as he captured the true colors of sunrise at Yosemite with careful use of different colors and vibrancy. If Bierstadt had not chosen the colors he used as carefully as he did, I truly believe the sense of realism he created would not have been in place. The careful use of these pictorial depth cues by Vermeer and Bierstadt were what directed me toward choosing them as the best manner these painters conveyed visual realism in their