Landscape

Landscape came about in a time when painters were admiring the world around them. Their attentions were drawn to more common everyday happenings such as milking cows, farming, a city scene, slices of daily life. Landscape painting in away said you are here. The painters may have been witness to their own religious undertakings. The myth of the hero had been replaces with the everyday man, woman and child and the world they inhabited.

Landscape deals more with the illusion of depth and space than portrait or still life painting. It utilizes both shallow and deep spaces, fore middle and back ground, receding and advancing color and detail changes.

I believe the Northern European painters to be the first landscape painters as in Rembrant's paintings. Most of this landscaping would happen post Renaissance. The french with Corbet takes the lead then and hands off to the Impressionist such as Monet and Pissaro.

Today painters like Wolf Kahn, Wayne Thiebaud, Rachstraw Downes April Gornik, keep the tradition alive. Abstract painters also owe a great debt to landscape painters in terms of inspiration and depictions of space and searches for the sublime.



Project

Key Concept: Landscape Composition-Painting

Objective: Students will: a) Paint a landscape b) Pick a landscape of their choice to paint in a style of the artist mentioned above or in a style of art they chose.

Procedure: a) thumbnails in paint to arrive at value and color scale b) thumbnail to arrive at composition c) paint landscape, no drawing before hand d) paint landscape in a chosen style point of departure

Artists: Wolf Kahn, Wayne Thiebaud, April Gornic, Louisa McElwain, Manet, Monet, Van Gogh Materials: Photo references provided by students, canvas, paint, brushes, water, paper 6x9

Assessment: a) Tie into objectives b) Handling of paint c) composition d) creative point of departure

See www.mhsgallerymac.wikispaces.com for artist.