Discussion+Points

Focus: What is a Landscape?

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 * What is a Landscape? What is it not?
 * What could we see in a landscape?
 * What reasons might someone have for making a landscape artwork?
 * Landscape images are scenes that show the land in some way. These can be seen to include or be separate from seascapes, sky-scapes or cityscapes. What do you think?

Focus: What is perspective in the landscape?

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 * What is perspective? Is it purely the physical or suggested depth of an artwork? Why/why not?
 * Consider your home from the perspective of a bird or a worm. How would the perspectives differ?
 * How could the artist’s opinion count as perspective? Think about this from the viewer’s position.

Focus: What colour is the landscape?

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 * List colours that you associate with different feelings. Why did you make these selections?
 * Revisit your knowledge of primary and secondary colours? What is a complementary colour? How could it be used in a landscape?
 * What do you understand by the terms ‘warm’ colours and ‘cool’ colours?

Focus: Can photos, glue and other materials be a landscape?

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 * Who has seen a photo-collage?
 * What do you think a photo-collage could be about?
 * What materials do you think you could use in a photo-collage?
 * What sort of images could you work with? How could you change an image so that it sends a subtle environmental message or a powerful one?

Focus: How can pottery be used in landscape art?

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 * What is pottery to you?
 * How can pottery be a part of a landscape?
 * Do you consider the work of the Hermannsburg Potters to be landscape art? Why/Why not?
 * How do the forms of Mincham’s vessels reflect the qualities of the landscape?

Focus: How can you use the landscape to create art?
Teacher note: (Andy Goldsworthy is not an Australian artist and this image was created in Yorkshire, England.) Discuss colour, texture and use of environmental materials with students, and the influence of Goldsworthy on Australian artists.)
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 * How can you combine the landscape and art?
 * What do you think is meant by the term “installation”?
 * View the image “Rowan Leaves with Hole” by Andy Goldsworthy. How does this represent the Australian landscape?