Albert Bierstadt‘s painting of the Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak specifically is a painting that is quite breathtaking. For those who have not even been to the Rocky Mountains themselves, the painting reflects and shows it‘s exact beauty through these elements used to portray the actual location. With the vibrant colors from blue, yellow, brown and green, the colors capture the true beauty of what they really look like. The color showing the vibrant trees, the hazy sky of the light blue, and the ragged mountains capturing the yellow and the brown elements of color. It shows a cool, warm and neutral outlook of the entire piece. Bringing beauty into someone‘s life. With these colors showing the true beauty, the horizontal, vertical, zig-zag, curved, and diagonal lines …show more content…
With it‘s shape and form of the entire piece, it really all comes together. The converging lines between the sky to the mountains, to the mountains to the land is quite beautiful as well. The space taken up by such a simple, yet extraordinary painting is just enough to capture true beauty. It‘s not too much being taken up, but just enough to show the elements inside and what is to come of the actual thing. Albert is trying to correctly convey such a beautiful piece, yet putting his own visual tactile artistry into it. The painting shows it‘s atmospheric perspective in a way that the painting is always too fake to be real, but to real to be fake. It shows the beauty of the land, but almost looking like a photograph. The entire painting is 2-D, until you step out and go see the mountain for yourself, which then turns into 3-D. Albert uses the correct use of vanishing point by portraying the waterfall and the stream farther back into the painting. With this vanishing point occurring, that is what makes it almost like a photograph than a painting. It‘s quite simple, yet makes a huge