FORMAL ANALYSIS As I viewed all the wonderful displays at the San Antonio Art Museum, I began to select the ones with the most vibrant color usage and the ones that seemed to bare the most meaning. The painting I have chosen for this formal analysis is called “Passing storm over the Sierra Nevada’s “. It was painted in 1870 by an artist named Albert Bierstadt who was an American born German painter best known for his landscape paintings of the American west. The nature of this captured monumental scene is a dramatic rainstorm moving across the mountains and lakes in the Sierra Mountains of California. In that day and age Bierstadt’s beautiful America west paintings were full of detail and dramatic lighting that captured the attention of the public, many came to know the American west solely by expedition pieces like this one.…show more content… In the foreground there sits a lake and its shore line with flowing uses of line, depth, and bold earthly colors. The cliff on the right side of the painting looks to me to consist of think line techniques with rough uneven texture, and a tone that almost seems muted. The tree line looks to have a coarse texture with a use of delicate line technique and a subtle tone. The background consists of the Nevada Mountains expressed by a simple thin line technique, along with the rough texture and its organic shape. Above the mountain line there are incredible portrayed clouds with pale color with a fixated focal point of vibrant color for
