1. Three Landscapes Building Background Historical/Cultural Connections
Theory/Technique
Aesthetics
Essential Questions
Reading art as text: visual thinking strategy
Vocabulary

2. Building Background 1 Point Perspective

4. 2 Point Perspective

8. 3 Point Perspective

11. Collage Paintings: what not to do

12. What to do…

20. The Law of Threes: composition
Foreground
Middle Distance/Middle Ground
Background

21. Foreground fore·ground
part that appears nearest: the part of a picture or scene that appears nearest the viewer
currently receiving commands: currently receiving commands, usually through the keyboard, while other programs are operating independently
highlight something: to put something in an important position and so draw attention to it

25. Middle Distance/Middle Ground
The area between the foreground and background in a painting, drawing, or photograph. Also called middle ground.

28. Background The ground or scenery located behind something.
The part of a pictorial representation that appears to be in the distance and that provides relief for the principal objects in the foreground.
The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed.
A position or area of relative inconspicuousness or unimportance.

31. Historical Artwork: landscapes Picasso-House on The Hill

32. Smoke over Valarius

33. Juan Gris

34. Renoir

35. Renoir

36. Cezanne

37. Cezanne: landscape 1870