The Andes of Ecuador is an oil on canvas art piece. It was painted by Frederic Edwin Church on the year of 1855. It is said to be "painted after Frederic Edwin Church's first trip to Ecuador in 1853." [1] The Andes of Ecuador are a scenery, and describes the artist’s trip from two years before his painting. In the painting’s bottom left foreground there is a cross, and someone knelt in front of it as if to be praying. This shows part of the cultural of Ecuador. In the bottom middle foreground there are animals that look as if to be alpacas, these are very common in the Andes Mountains, so it would also describe the things he saw. There are also birds flying up on the tree tops, which describes how tall the trees he saw were. The whole scenery describes what he saw and the way he painted the misty waterfall. The Andes of Ecuador and 2 Yellow Leaves are American Paintings and seem to bring a sense of calmness to the viewer. While 2 Yellow Leaves by Georgia O'Keeffe is also an oil on canvas art piece, it was painted on the year of 1928. It is focused more on a single part of something she saw. The sense of common thing to be enlarged, in order to notice their importance. Such as she enlarged two leaves in the stages of changing colors in the season of fall. It describes American Cultural because we as American’s experience the change of seasons.
Both of the art pieces have a sense of nature to them. They each contain contrast to make the pieces appear more realistic, along with a series of patterns and rhythms. For example, 2 Yellow Leaves appears to be hit by light and having a shadow. This element of contrast creates depth, and is created by O'Keeffe by overlapping the two leaves and by the use of a dull gray shade along t...
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... Which provides the space for the emphasis on the panorama of the scenery, and takes away the attention of the people that scaled much smaller to show the emphasis on the height of the Andes. There is also a few buildings and a few creatures that can't be seen at first glance. On the other hand, 2 Yellow Leaves is large scaled. The leaves are larger than they would be in real life, and the emphasis would be the leaves. At a glanced everything could be easily noticed about her piece since it is proportioned largely, while The Andes of Ecuador must be analyzed carefully. There is a big difference from seeing artworks online or through textbooks than physically going to see them in an art museum.
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"The Andes of Ecuador | Reynolda House Museum of American Art." The Andes of Ecuador | Reynolda House Museum of American Art. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2014.
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