Ninti One research presentation day Theme 1 Productive Landscapes
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Landscapes: Real and Imagined
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Questions
Why might an artist choose to paint abstractly instead of
representationally—depicting figures, shapes, objects, or scenes?
What kinds of choices do artists make when painting?
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Take a close look at Port-en-Bessin,
Entrance to the Harbor, by Seurat.
• What is going on in the
foreground, the middle ground
and the background?
• What is the mood of this place?
Georges-Pierre Seurat. Port-en-Bessin, Entrance
to the Harbor. 1888
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Now, take a close look at The Starry
Night, by van Gogh.
• How is it similar to Port-en-
Bessin? How is it different? What
details do you notice?
• Why might this be considered a
‘Symbolist’ work of art?
Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. June 1889
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• How are these paintings similar?
• How are they different?
Let’s compare Seurat and van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. June 1889
Georges-Pierre Seurat. Port-en-Bessin, Entrance
to the Harbor. 1888
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Now, take a close look at Melancholy:
Evening on the Shore, by Munch.
• What is happening with the figure
in this landscape? What mood is
being conveyed?
• Would the mood be the same
without the figure? Why or why
not?
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Edvard Munch. Melancholy: Evening on the Shore.
1896
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Now, take a close look at Evening,
Honfleur, by Seurat.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat. Evening, Honfleur,
1886
• What is happening in the
foreground, middle ground, and
background? What mood is
being conveyed?
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Let’s compare the moods of Munch’s
Melancholy: Evening on the Shore to
Seurat’s Evening, Honfleur.
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Georges-Pierre Seurat. Evening, Honfleur, 1886
Edvard Munch. Melancholy: Evening on the Shore.
1896
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Questions
Now that you have generated descriptive words for each image, use them
to have a conversation with a partner:
How did these modern painters convey a sense of mood or interior,
psychological space in their landscapes?
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Henri Rousseau. The Dream. 1910
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Let’s look at these two landscapes by
Matisse.
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Henri Matisse. Study for "Luxe, calme et
volupté". 1904
Henri Matisse. Landscape at Collioure. 1905
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Vasily Kandinsky. Picture with an Archer. 1909
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Paul Gauguin. The Moon and the
Earth. 1893
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Joan Miró. The Hunter (Catalan Landscape). Montroig, July 1923-winter 1924.
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Salvador Dalí. The Persistence of Memory. 1931.
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Max Ernst. Two Children Are Threatened by a
Nightingale. 1924.
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