Focus on this artwork and discuss the abstract.
The Andes of Ecuador  is an 1855 oil painting by Frederic Edwin Church, the premier American landscape painter of the time. It is the most significant result of his 1853 trip to South America, where he would travel again in 1857. It is Church's first major painting, his largest work to date, and "an early masterpiece of Luminism", according to the Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which holds the painting.
Luminism Reynolda House Museum of American Art Frederic Edwin Church Winston-Salem, North Carolina Andes