analysing landscapes

1. Landscapes, what do we know?
Rosalie Gasgoine: ‘suddenly the lake’
Claude Monet: ‘Haystacks’
Format
Space
View point
Figurative – Abstract
Colour use
Technique
Story

2. Australian landscapes
How to create depth in landscapes

3. In landscapes you often see a division in:
foreground, middle ground and background. The
big tree overlaps the background.

4. Rule of thirds
In this composition the rule of
thirds has been applied. All major
objects or lines have been
arranged according to
the 1/3 grid.

5. Diminishing size
• The trees are all gum
trees. The ones in the
foreground are much
bigger then the one
further away

6. Use diminishing detail; (look at texture)
The tree in the foreground has
more detail than the ones in
the background. They look
more vague.

7. Diminishing colour (warm-cold colours)
The colours in the foreground
are brighter and there is
more variety. The background
is in a blue shade to make it
look further away

8. Creating depth by using one point
perspective
All lines going away from the
viewer meet in the vanishing
point, which lies on the
horizon

9. Repoussoir (French for push back)
The black trees in the
foreground push back the
lighter middleground

10. Use light and dark (value,tone) contrast for
3D effect
The highlighted tree trunks and limbs
contrast with the shaded parts,
creating a three dimensional effect

11. End of an era; changes 19th century
• Invention of photo camera in 1840: no need to copy reality
• Invention of paint tube makes it possible for artists to paint
outside
• More use of ’snapshots’ instead of whole landscape
• Artists want to come up with own style and start experimenting
• Exaggerate colours/ shapes/ lines/ experiment with brush
techniques
• New art movements are born: ”ism’s”

12. Styles of representation in landscapes:
Impressionism and Expressionism
• Impressionists look at the
world through their eyelashes
and focus on how light affects
the colours in an image
• Different (pastel) colour and
tones; no use of black
• Shapes are a bit vague
• Loose brush strokes
• Monet: 1873
• Impression soleil levant
• (sunrise)
• Colours: not natural.
• Bold shapes with outline.
• Expressionists exaggerate!
• Powerful brushstrokes.
• Wasily Kandinsky, Bavarian
Mountains 1909

13. Artist research options:
Impressionists
• Claude Monet (Fr)
• Georges Seurat (Fr)
• Arthur Streeton (Au)
• Peter Smales (Au)

14. Expressionist painters
• Wassily Kandinsky (Russia)
• Edvard Munch (Norway)
• Fred Williams (Au)
• Stewart Westle (Au)

15. Inspiring Artist Research Task (due week 3)
• Select one of the 8 painters mentioned in the slides before. You
choose if you want to be inspired by an impressionist or
expressionist style painter.
• Follow the instructions on the hand out for this task carefully.
• Email this task to your Art teacher by the due date.
• This will be the only written task for the Painting folio.

16. Select one photo from the landscape photos you
have taken to use for you landscape painting. Crop
image if necessary. (use rule of thirds)

17. Use the app “Art Effect” for your selected photo; label each image
with the name of the filter and print the Impressionist/Expressionist
images.

18. Design your landscape painting
• Crop the photo if necessary to
get a good composition
• Apply the rule of thirds.
• Sketch the image in your visual
diary A5 format
• Add a colour scheme & brush
strokes you will be using.
• Address the features of the
chosen painting style!!