Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt | 2 Hour Art Screensaver for Your TV

Bierstadt had never seen anything like Yosemite. He was a German kid raised in Massachusetts who went west with a survey expedition and came back with sketches that changed American painting forever. This was the 1860s. No national parks yet. Most people back east had zero idea places like this existed. So when Bierstadt showed these massive canvases in New York, people lost their minds. They literally lined up and paid admission just to look at one painting. He made the West feel like a cathedral. Those granite walls, that waterfall disappearing into mist, the light. He was accused of exag