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Title: Landscapes in Art


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Landscapes in Art
  • Year 7 - Landscapes

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Landscapes
  • Landscapes are pictures that show a glimpse or a
    snapshot of the environment.
  • Landscapes have been painted by many different
    artists throughout history.
  • Landscape pictures often create a mood or feeling
    about a particular place.

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Aims of the lesson
  • You are going to see the development of landscape
    painting over the last 500 years.
  • You will look closely at the different ways in
    which the artists approach the landscape.
  • You will be more able to consider your own
    composition for a painting.

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The Annunciation by Sandro Botticelli
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Sandro Botticelli
  • Botticelli 1445-1510 was an Italian Renaissance
    artist.
  • The Renaissance was a time of rediscovery of
    ancient Greek and Roman ideas and artistry.

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The Garden of Earthly Delights, by Hieronymous
Bosch 1450-1516
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Hieronymous Bosch
  • Hieronymous Bosch, 1450-1516 produced some of the
    most inventive fantasy paintings that have ever
    existed.
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights demonstrates
    Bosch's dazzling ability to build up a hugely
    detailed landscape through a series of bizarre
    exaggerations and distortions.
  • The complete work consists of four paintings on a
    series of folding panels the outer panel reveals
    the Third Day of Creation when closed. Inside,
    The Garden of Earthly Delights is flanked on the
    left by the Garden of Eden and on the right by
    Hell.

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Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice by Nicolas
Poussin 1650-1
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Glebe Farm by John Constable
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John Constable
  • John Constable, 1776- 1837
  • He entered the art world fairly late in life.
    Born at East Bergholt, Suffolk, the son of a
    prosperous corn merchant, John Constable spent
    several years in the family business before
    deciding, and obtaining permission, to study
    painting full-time.
  • He is well known for painting scenes not far from
    where he lived.

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Norham Abbey by JMW Turner
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JMW Turner
  • Turner, (1775-1851) was a keen painter of
    landscapes.
  • He used watercolour and oil paint to create his
    carefully chosen scenes.
  • His work can been seen in the Tate Gallery,
    London.

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Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun, 1889 by
Vincent van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh
  • Vincent van Gogh was born near Brabant, the son
    of a minister. In 1869, he got a position at the
    art dealers, Goupil and Co.
  • He was largely self-taught as an artist, although
    he received help from his cousin, Mauve.
  • In Paris he discovered colour which helped to
    create the distinctive dashed brushstrokes of his
    later work.

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Lost Mine, 1959 by Peter Lanyon
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Peter Lanyon
  • Peter Lanyon, 1918-1964
  • Lost Mine 1959
  • Typically for Lanyon's work, Lost Mine refers to
    a tin mine that was consumed by the sea in a
    storm and abandoned.
  • Colour is used symbolically.The black represents
    the mine shaft and signifies death, the blues are
    the sea and sky,the red signals life and danger.

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Red and Orange Hills, 1938-39 by Georgia O'Keeffe
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Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986
  • "...I often painted fragments of things because
    it seemed to make my statement as well as or
    better than the whole could...I had to create an
    equivalent for what I felt about what I was
    looking at...not copy it."

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Vegetable Fields, 1911 by August Macke
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August Macke
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Yellow Field, Lammermuir by Barbara Rae
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  • Barbara Rae
  • One characteristic of great landscape painting is
    that it can be both general and particular of
    significance to everyone or of a particular
    place.
  • Barbara Rae drove up into the hills in Scotland,
    where there was a landscape of burnt heather,
    ancient fields and even older buildings.

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Plenary
  • Can you recognise the development of landscape
    painting over the last 500 years?
  • Can you understand the different ways in which
    the artists approach the landscape?
  • Are you more able to consider your own
    composition for a painting?
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