Landscape Art Definition Assignment

Constructing Definitions from Examples

"You don't take a photograph, you make it" - Ansel Adams

Learning Objectives:

BRAINSTORM
1.
Generate a list of ideas, places, people, and things that you associate with "landscape art."
Example ideas: nature, forest, ocean, lakes, rivers, where you are at the moment, seasons, winter, Disneyland, Disneyworld, Minecraft, paint, pink clouds, sunset, zoos, scenery, grandma's house, emotions
WRITE

Perform a Google image search for the phrase "landscape art museum."

2.
Craft a minimum description. What features are absolutely necessary for something to qualify as landscape art?
3.
What other features of landscape art do you notice that might be common but not necessarily an essential part of its definition?
DISCUSS & REPORT

Focus on one of the works of art below to describe, analyze, and evaluate.

Select which artwork you are analyzing:
(Choose from the artworks provided in class)

Revising Definitions

4.
How does your definition of "landscape art" shift if we include this work as an example?

Intellectual/Social

5.
Based on this painting, what ideas do you think the artist has about art? What do they think art should look like? How would you describe their perspective?
6.
What social messages or beliefs, if any, do you read into this image?
7.
Think back to your definitions of creativity. According to your definitions, what are the strengths and weaknesses of this work? Does the work challenge your definition at all?

Environmental

8.
What kind of environment is reflected in your image? Based on this work, what ideas do you think the artist has about their environment? What do they value? What are they critical of?