Artist Critque

The piece of art I choose to critique from the Denver Art Museum was the single most beautiful piece I saw within the entire museum. It was the painting of the Canyon at Yellowstone National Park. To me this work of art was one of the most amazing pieces in the entire museum, simply because of its sheer detail and size. It was one of the largest paintings in the whole place. The detail put into this painting was just mind bottling. The information on the art simply said the man did a rough sketch and jotted down the colors so he could get the scheme right, then he took his notes back to his work place and began creating an amazing work of unique art. This is what art should be, he paid close attention to the detail within the canyon as well as the waterfalls and tree's themselves. To be this precise on such a large scale with something as beautiful as the Yellowstone canyon simply baffles me. I see many works of art these days considered to be "abstract" or "modern" art, however much of these so called modern day works of art do not seem like much of art to me at all. This painting was simply great, old fashion talent as an artist. It was just amazing to see how well this man did capturing the sheer beauty of the place. It is so difficult to actually capture how a place looks, but this man nailed it, to a T. There was amazing depth perception as well as color shading, and the waterfall within it was just exquisite. The painting was so unbelievably large too, it must have taken him weeks if not longer just to get the basic design right, let alone the shading and coloring. It was a perfect painting, I myself could not point out a single flaw within the entire thing, then again I'm not an artist. I can not even imagine what this man felt when he actually completed the painting, was it accomplishment, relief, did he love the painting or feel he could have done just a bit better. I will tell you this right now, if I was made of money, I would have that painting and many other's bye that artist strung throughout my home. Any way, to wrap things up I thought it was an amazing work of true artistic talent and I wish they had more painting like that one throughout the museum.