Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt and Still Life by Pablo Picasso Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt depicts a scenic view of a part of Yosemite before it became a national park. The foreground takes about a fourth of the picture plane. It consists of a few trees on green hills. The majority of the piece consists of a view of the upper montane sections of the later park. The about half of the background is made up of a blue sky. The piece was made with oil on canvas. While Bierstadt’s price was more representational, Still Life by Pablo Picasso is more abstract. It depicts abstract shapes and lines at the center of the price lithesome color in the form of a green rectangle in the back ground of the piece. The piece was made with pencil and oils on masonite. …show more content…
Yosemite has implied lines that break up the picture plane to better separate the foreground from the back ground, thereby adding a sense of dimension to the piece. The line that implies the horizon acts as an echo to the format of the piece Here Bierstadt uses line to give structure to his piece. Picasso’s uses line more obviously. There is no intention to separate the background form the foreground. The piece is meant to be one collection of shapes. Line is also used to depicts letters and form the shapes of what seems to be a duck and a plant. The lines are used to give the price a sense of chaos, all going at different angles with no apparent rhyme or reason. The artists also use the element of size in there pieces. Bierstadt purposely shows the size difference between the trees in the foreground with the size of the mountains in the background. The difference in scale reinforce dimension that Bierstadt established with his lines. Picasso uses size to add more chaos to his already chaotic price. The shapes in the piece come in all sorts sizes. Things that would normally be different sizes seem to be about the same size. An expel of their would be the bird and the plant when compared to the script overlapped by other more vague