#american luminism

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Albert Bierstadt painted "Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California" in 1865, just as the Civil War was ending. After traveling west with survey expeditions, he returned to his studio with sketches and transformed them into images that made the American landscape feel vast, dramatic and almost sacred. The composition does a lot of the work. Dark cliffs close in from both sides while a band of golden light opens at the center of the valley. Your eye has nowhere else to go. Bierstadt wasn't simply recording Yosemite. He was shaping it into an idea, and the effect is still hard to resist. Quelle: meisterdrucke.com

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'Fisherman At Sea' - Joseph Mallord William Turner "The first oil painting Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy, this is a moonlit scene in the tradition of Horace Vernet, Philip de Loutherbourg and Joseph Wright of Derby. These painters were largely responsible for fueling the 18th-century vogue for nocturnal subjects. The sense of the overwhelming power of nature is a key theme of the Sublime. The potency of the moonlight contrasts with the delicate vulnerability of the flickering lantern, emphasizing nature’s power over mankind and the fishermen’s fate in particular. The jagged silhouettes on the left are the treacherous rocks called ‘the Needles’ off the Isle of Wight." one. of. the. best. My second favorite Luminist/Pre-Impressionist painter, after Frederic Edwin Church.