Among the Bernese Alps by Albert Bierstadt
http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Albert-Bierstadt/Among-The-Bernese-Alps.html
Posted on 12/27/2008 12:54:23 PM PST by mojito
If I remember correctly the word kicked around by Albert Bierstadt was “sublime”
Breathtaking!
I looked him up on Wikipedia, and just finished downloading that one to iPhoto. Spectacular.
I did the Mt. Whitney day hike from Whitney Portal this past summer, and saw the Sierras in person. It’s beautiful beyond belief.
Bierstadt traveled to Yosemite with the writer Fitz Hugh Ludlow. Ludlow described his feelings upon seeing Yosemite, fitting to the original topic of this thread:
“We did not so much seem to be seeing from that crag of vision a new scene on the old familiar globe as a new heaven and a new earth into which the creative spirit had just been breathed. I hesitate now, as I did then, at the attempt to give my vision utterance. Never were words so beggared for an abridged translation of any Scripture of Nature.”
http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Albert-Bierstadt/Among-The-Bernese-Alps.html
http://www.paintinghere.com/painting/Landscape_in_the_Adirondacks_723.html
Thanks for posting.
In the Woods, 1855
Asher B. Durand (American, 1796–1886)
Oil on canvas; 60 3/4 x 48 in. (154.3 x 121.9 cm)
Gift in memory of Jonathan Sturges by his children, 1895 (95.13.1)
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/hurs/ho_95.13.1.htm
It’s there, but there’s more. It’s ugly and what is ugly is politically useful.
Frederic Edwin Church Paintings (9 shown):
http://www.paintinghere.com/artist/Frederic_Edwin_Church-1.html
There’s actually about 27 paintings viewable on the page I last linked to (not 9 as I wrote). I didn’t notice at first that there were 3 separate pages of his works.
I've not see the paperback, but the quality of the pictures in the hardcover I have is quite good. Several years ago I wanted to purchase a copy as a gift for someone whom I had observed had a nice little art library in her home but nothing Hudson River related, and I had to settle for a used copy.
ML/NJ
Looks like a great book! Thanks. This stuff is so incredibly inspirational. Yet some people aren’t moved in the least by such things. Having very nearly completed a BS in geology years ago, I’m also deeply into the natural processes which created these amazing landscapes.
That's funny!
ML/NJ
If you have such a feature available to you on your system, I suggest ‘zooming’ or enlarging these paintings to the max. It’s the next best thing to seeing the real deal at the Museum! Both Windows IE and Firefox have zoom features. For IE-7 (and perhaps the other versions?), it should be at the lower right-hand corner of the screen (see the percentage sign: % at lower right). For Firefox, hold down Ctrl, Delete and + all at the same time.
I know, I thought of that too. It’s almost like saying one knows about astronomy because they ‘took up space’ in college. But seriously, I did very nearly complete a ‘4-year degree’ in geology. I often kick myself for not going back to finish. Personal problems got in the way making it very difficult.
Ping.
I guess you didn't understand my comment. I believe the conventional wisdom about geology to be almost entirely BS.
ML/NJ
Like tectonics, right?
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