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Sierra Nevada By Albert Bierstadt: Painting Analysis
Albert Bierstadt was one of the greatest landscape artists in history (Albert Bierstadt). His naturalistic landscape scenes of the unsettled American West brought about the need to preserve the land; in 1872, the United States Congress passed the Yellowstone Park Bill therefore creating the first national park in the world (Sierra Nevada). One of Albert Bierstadt more iconic paintings is titled Sierra Nevada, it was painted around the year 1872. He uses different lines, shows incredible texture, impeccable depth, stunning colors and design in his painting the Sierra Nevada. The painting, Sierra Nevada, depicts beautiful distant mountain peaks covered by dense fog and clouds. A river flows through a valley in the mountains that forms into
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