Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is the first large canyon on the Yellowstone River downstream from Yellowstone Falls in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
“The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone” was painted by Thomas Moran in 1827. There are many other landscape paintings of the Grand Canyon done by Moran.
There are lines that shapes the form of the paintings, color and contrast that outline the landscape of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone National Park. The lines form the slopes of the Grand Canyon, the patterns of the trees that are along the slopes, the contrast of the sunlight creates the color of the landscape, the trees, and the mist of the waterfall and the steam that rises in the middle of the painting which creates a beautiful picture of the scenery.
The emotion that the painting done by Moran is that it creates peace, awe in one’s mind, and speechless thought as the scenery catches one’s eye, until they absorb the serenity of the landscape.
Grand Canyon Falls of the Yellowstone National Park
The waterfall is so serene, that is why I love waterfalls! The art analysis of the waterfall is that there are lines in the canyon, the mountains, and the waterfall itself. Although the contrast and color in this painting has shades, it is still beautiful. I do not see much patterns, but in the jagged mountains. The form of this painting is that it displays beauty.
The emotion in this painting is that it creates serenity and adds grandeur of the unique natural treasure.
Thomas Moran
Thomas Moran was born on February 12, 1837 in Bolton, United Kingdom, and died on August 25, 1926 at Santa Barbara, California. Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. He was known as a landscape painter. He painted many other landscape paintings of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone National Park. He was also a Romanticism period painter.
I admire Moran’s artwork of the beautiful landscape paintings of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone National Park.
Wanderer above the sea of fog
The Wanderer above the sea of fog also was known as “Wanderer above the Mist” or “Mountaineer in a Misty Landscape” was painted by Casper David Friedrich in 1818. In the foreground, a man stands on a rocky part of the sea landscape. The waves are crashing in the rocks. The fog makes the weather look dark and shady and the man looks like a dark figure.
Casper David Friedrich
Casper David Friedrich was born on September 5, 1774 in Griefswald, Swedish Pomerania, and died on May 7, 1840 in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony in the German Confederation. He was a landscape painter that painted landscape pictures , for example, “The Monk by the Sea”.
https://anschutzcollection.org/about-us/anschutz-collection/hudson-river-rocky-mountain-schools
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_of_the_Yellowstone
https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/historyculture/thomasmoransdiary.htm
https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-moran
https://www.nps.gov/features/yell/slidefile/history/moranandotherart/page.htm
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