Essays on Rocky Mountains

Introduction

The Rocky Mountain National Park is situated in the Rocky Mountains in the state of Colorado. The national park is among one of the most visited tourist destination in the United States as it is filled with majestic views that attract over three million visitors every year. The fauna and flora in the national park features mountain lakes, wildlife, mountain views as well as varied environments and climates (Malitz, 13). Rocky Mountain National Park has five main visitors’ centres with the Beaver Meadows Centre being the central headquarter of the park due to its national historic landmarks that were ...

Bierstadt used light and shadow in a masterly fashion, which made his painting an extremely dramatic. Incredible contrasts reveal magnificent natural environment and its immense beauty made Bierstadt’s pictures popular. The viewer can easily determine three spaces of the artwork: The foreground is the nearest area to the viewer on the right part of the picture. This part shows a hunting scene of the Indians pursuing deer with horses and dogs. Still nearer on the right the mountain spring is visible, next to which a carcass of deer and some human items were left. At some distance three ...

The painting under consideration is the landscape with the mountains and the lake, a group of trees in front and a lot of clouds in the sky. The nature and the sky are divided by the constant line. The line in the work is broken in the lower part of the painting according to the golden section. It indicates the direction which is followed by the viewer’s eye. Because the mountains are rocky and trees are lush, the line is bold. It created both value and space in the work, it creates smooth transition from the dark to ...