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Exploring Impressionist Landscapes
Students visit an on-line art museum in Paris, analyze several landscapes, and explore the painting techniques. They become familiar with distinctive aspects of classical Impressionist landscape paintings.
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Asian Landscape Scroll
Students study the ancient art of Chinese scroll painting. They create an original landscape painting mounted on printed framing paper. Students discuss information about Chinese scroll paintings, an art form used for a least 2,000...
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Landscape Book
Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.
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Comparing Asian and Impressionist Landscapes
Students draw on their knowledge of Impressionist and Asian landscapes to reflect on the differences found in the two genres of landscape painting.
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Song Dynasty Traditional Landscape Paintings
Learners study new ideas and art concepts, while reinforcing others, through a Chinese cultural tradition. They determine how cultural differences differences affect painting processes.
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The Rocky Shore
Students compare a realistic landscape painting with a photograph of the same place.
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Japanese Peasants
Students examine how the Japanese peasant was depicted in art in this high school lesson plan about Asian cultures. Emphasis is placed on individual observations and written reflections.
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Views of the American West: True or False?
Students explain that a landscape painting may or may not accurately represent a specific place. They identify techniques that create the illusion of three-dimensional space on a flat surface.
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Japanese Festivals and Celebrations
High schoolers investigate the importnce of celebrations anf festivals in Japanese culture and then create a story based upon an image from the lesson. Resource links are provided for images of events.