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Fredric Edwin Church The Icebergs
Fredric Edwin Church’s 1861 painting “The Icebergs” predominately uses line, light, and size to give the viewer a feeling of being minuscule in comparison to the icebergs.
The first thing the eye is drawn to is the ship mast at the bottom of the piece, because of its dark contrast to the rest of the light colors it stands out among the rest of the artwork. It creates an implied line that leads the eye to the small waves that form in the water; it is here that the waves lines, if followed in the same angle after they bend, lead the eye to the large dark boulder that stands out in contrast to the brightness of the icebergs. There is also another invisible line that is created from the mast that points towards the same brown rock. His cliff lines
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