Nature

Artist: Jean Victor Bertin

Title: Classical Landscape with Figures

Date: 1803

Medium: oil on wood

Provenance: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Source: www.metmuseum.org

Description: tall trees standing over people, clouds in the sky above mountains in the background

Line: diagonal up to the right shown through positions and height of the people. Triangle, pyramid shape shown with trees, ground, and mountains

Natural shapes and forms - trees, clouds, mountains, bushes, people

Color - dark shadows cast by trees, dark brown mountains in the background, sunlight shining down on one person, other people in the shade

Texture - mountains look rugged and rocky, soft- looking grass on the ground

Space - illusion of space in mountains in background, positive space in trees and people, negative space in mountains and trees in background

Balance - asymmetrical but balanced out with trees

Contrast - mountains seem rough, but sky is smooth; trees seem rough, but grass seems smooth

Emphasis - focused on trees and people in the bottom right

Movement - movement shown through people's positions and trees

Proportion - height of people use scale to show height of trees

Rhythm - many leaves in the trees shade the people and the ground

Unity - the leaves and trees work together to shade the people and people seem to be focused on one particular thing; mountains add beauty and scale