Landscapes
Children will be introduced
to landscapes from different
periods in
history, including paintings
by 17th-century French
master Claude
Lorrain and Impressionist
Camille Pissarro. Pupils
will compare
artists’ methods
and approaches, and explore
how landscapes can
communicate and evoke moods.
This session will include
a hands-on
drawing activity.
The idea of landscape as
a distinct form of painting
is relatively new in
historical
terms. Until the sixteenth
century, landscape was
an accessory art - filling
in the background of portraits
and religious pictures
and contributing to their
mood. Landscape began with
the depiction of objects
- trees, houses, hills,
etc., and artists gradually
learned to observe them
more carefully and to delight
in them for their own sake.
Artists began to view objects
in relation to one another,
more accurately depicting
the broad planes of the
landscape and the relative
size of things in space.
Flemish and Dutch landscape
in the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries developed out
of direct observation and
a love of nature. Artists
successfully solved the
difficult problem of showing
the three zones that make
up a landscape - the foreground,
middle distance and far
distance. This enabled
them to create an illusion
of three-dimensions
on a flat surface.
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Jan
van Scorel (1475-1562)
Noli me Tangere
with Donors (1557-61)
Location: Gallery
26
This is an excellent
example of landscape
painting being
used as a background
to religious subjects.
The main panel
of this triptych
depicts the meeting
of Christ and Mary
Magdalene after
the Resurrection.
Mary was the first
to see the risen
Christ and the
title Noli Tangere,
or 'do not touch
me', were Christ's
first words to
her according to
the Latin Vulgate
account.
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Claude
Lorrain (1600
- 1682), Landscape
near Rome with
a View of the Ponte
Molle (1645)
Location: Gallery 25
Claude's landscape style had an enormous influence on British
landscape painting (notably Turner and Wilson) and landscape gardening for
over a century. Claude lived in Rome for most of his life. The Pont Molle,
was a part-Roman, part 15th century bridge spanning the
Tiber to the north of the City. The round tower and farm buildings appear again
in other landscape paintings.
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Andre
Derain (1880-1954)
Landscape near Cagnes
Location: Gallery 21
Derain was a founder member of a group of painters called 'Les Fauves', noted
for
their
use
of
strong
pure
colours. |
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