Chap 4 Artist Review : Albert Bierstadt

Albert Beirstadt was a German Born American painter who drew sketches while on a expedition with the U.S. Army Engineers to Map an overland route during the 1850"s. With those sketches, he used them as a template to created his paintings. The technique that Beirstadt used to create his landscape paintings is the atmospheric perceptive. Beirstadt"s painting The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Rock, shows the leveled ground with bright crisp colors of the trees, waterfall and the Native American camp ground. Then looking upwards the mountains get a little higher and further away with paler colors that seem a little out of focus. then at the top where the mountains are sky high is more out of focus an paler. the painting as a whole is realistic which was the goal of many western art paintings.