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Landscape Confection: Pre-visit Activity
Upper graders explore the concepts of landscape art, man, nature and their inter-relationship. This is a critical thinking and analysis activity intended to prepare the class for an up coming trip to a local art museum. They analyze,...
National Gallery of Canada
September Gale T-Shirts
Focus on the principles of design with a wearable landscape art project. The plan provides definitions to share and art to examine. After students have a grasp of the principles, they draw a scene to eventually transfer onto a T-shirt....
National Gallery of Canada
The Tools of Perspective
Make a study of perspective in the real world. Learners examine and discuss works of art that show examples of perspective before trying their own hands at it. Using a grid drawn on transparent paper, class members transfer a view from a...
National Gallery of Canada
Panoramic Landscapes
Combine landscape with collage to create unique art pieces. Class members examine works of art before creating their own pieces with photos of a special place. Learners create a panoramic image and add in figures.
Curated OER
The View From Here
Study the beauty of the landscape around you with an innovative art lesson. After discussing the foreground, background, and middle ground of landscape art, kids work on making their own piece of landscape art. The lesson provides...
Curated OER
The Landscape
High schoolers view and discuss many landscape paintings and examine their own connections to the landscape. A wonderful component built into thes series of lessons is the interview each learner must complete with a senior citizen;...
National Gallery of Canada
My Scene
Acquaint your class with line, color, shape, and texture through a study of artwork and an art activity. The resource includes images and information to share with your class before sending individuals off to sketch and paint landscapes...
Curated OER
Landscape
Students create a landscape or cityscape. In this landscape lesson, students discover the definition of a landscape and describe various examples. Students choose three images and write "postcards" from each of the three landscape...
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Hendrick Avercamp and the Winter Landscape
Students study the winter landscape art of Hendrick Avercamp. In this art history lesson, students read passages about the art and artist Hendrick Avercamp. Students learn about winter landscape art and write an acrostic poem about a...
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The Rise of Landscape Painting
Students study the rise of landscape art throughout the 19th century and the specific features of the genre. In this landscape art lesson, students read the definition of landscape art and its precedence in the 19th century. Students...
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Clouds as Art: Torn Paper Landscape
Students create a torn paper landscape and use it to study clouds. In this cloud study and art lesson, students make a background art image from torn paper. Students create a torn paper landscape and use cotton balls to illustrate...
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Linking Lines to Landscape
Students evaluate art to enhance their core knowledge of fiction, American folk heroes, and the water cycle. In this art lesson, students complete a unit of activities to use art to study various topics of literature, history, and...
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum: Brushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Brushed with Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit, a description of the show and sections with audio clips,...
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum: Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
Information about the 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum: "Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth Century
The 2007 long-term exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, ""Under the Open Sky": Landscape Sketches by Nineteenth-Century American Artists" is presented here with selected works from the exhibit.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Richard Mayhew
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Richard Mayhew is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his abstract landscape.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Alexander H. Wyant
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Alexander H. Wyant is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape painting.
Martin Lawrence Galleries
Martin Lawrence Galleries: Bruce Ricker
A landscape artist who works both with screenprints and paintings. Ricker calls his style of painting an "epic visionary."
Huntington Library
Huntington L Ibrary: American Art: Federic Edwin Church: Chimborazo (1864)
The painting, Chimborazo, by Frederic E. Church depicts the natural beauty of Ecuador, one of the places this artist traveled to. As explained in this article, it provides an example of landscape art of the 19th century.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Ite: 'A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning' [Pdf]
As part of the National Gallery's Take One Picture project, this PDF offers suggestions for using this Rubens painting in a cross-curricular study in elementary grades.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Joseph Jefferson
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Joseph Jefferson is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting. Two examples of his art are also provided.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: H. Bolton Jones
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, H. Bolton Jones is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his landscape paintings.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: J. Francis Murphy
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, J. Francis Murphy is described here along with information on his contributions to art through landscape painting.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Ite About 'The Hunt in the Forest'
There is so much going on in this painting by Uccello. These notes about the painting will help you to better understand it and get to know more about the artist.