Landscape: An artwork depicting an area of land. Although natural elements are often the central focus, landscapes can also include buildings, people, and animals.
Line, Texture, Color, Scale
Foreground: The objects or subjects closest to the viewer.
Midground: The objects or subjects in between the foreground and background.
Background: The objects or subjects farthest from the viewer.
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English, Born 1775. Known for being one of the first artists to push abstraction and add political elements.
Work 1: Valley of Aosta
Work 2: The Fighting Temeraire
Work 3: Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth
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Japanese, Born 1797. Best known for scenes of nature and urban life with extensive use of bokashi (color gradiation).
Work 1: Plum Park in Kameido
Work 2: The Shopping Street Suruga-cho
Work 3: Naruto Whirlpools
Work 4: Sudden Shower Over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake
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British, Born, 1937. Known for a variety of styles and materials, known for landscapes made out of photocollages called “joiners.”
Work 1: Untitled
Work 2: Pearblossom Highway #2
Work 3: Sunday Morning, Mayflower Hotel, N.Y
Work 4: Untitled
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Ethiopian, Born 1970. Uses dense abstract lines that create space in a way that conveys a foreground, middleground and background.
Work 2: Stadia 2
Work 3: Looking Back to a Bright New Future
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First, find an image on your phone or on Google of a place that is meaningful to you.
Identify a foreground, middle ground and background. Identify what areas/ subjects should be lighter or darker.
Take 10 minutes to draw a landscape of that place using a pen, pencil or other utensil. Afterwards you will have the opportunity to share the landscape with the group.