Landscape Curriculum 2

• Usually when “landscape” is mentioned in the context of art, the “typical” landscape is an oil painting.
• Landscapes can be found in an immense range of art forms.
• Minecraft has produced intricate landscapes, which share the exact same principles of lighting, atmospheric perspective, etc. found in a Thomas Cole painting.
• Animal Crossing is an interactive landscape which is created by you.
• Landscape artwork is often a reflection upon geography, as the landscape varies tremendously depending on location.
• In illustration, the landscape can truly become a character and world in itself.
• People often think backgrounds and landscapes will interfere with the figures in an artwork.
• Leo and Diane Dillon’s children’s book illustrations have a dream-like quality that show the passage of time.

• WPA posters use a very flat, graphic style to portray landscapes throughout the US.
• Landscapes in Osamu Tezuka’s manga comics are incredibly rich and atmospheric, despite being pen drawings.
• Many cultures have ceramic tiles, vases, and plates that have landscapes.
• In the context of a vase, the landscape does not have a definitive ending the way the edge of an oil painting does.
• Murals in cities often define the landscape and personality of the neighborhood.
• Textiles with landscapes can range from historical tapestries in Europe to designs by the company Marimekko.
• A background in animation can be as much of the storytelling process as the characters themselves.
• The technology in movies has drastically transformed over the past few decades.
• Old matte paintings were truly an art form that defined space and atmosphere.

Fine Artists

• Diedrick Brackens
• Henry Darger
• Lady Pink
• Rembrandt
• Shonto Begay
• Thomas Cole
• Will Cotton

Muralists

• Aurora Reyes Flores
• Lady Pink

Comics Artists

• Osamu Tezuka
• Tillie Walden

Illustrators

• Aaron Becker
• Arthur Rackham
• Eliza Wheeler
• Kent Davis
• Leo & Diane Dillon
• William Steig

Concept Artists & Animators

• Adam Adamowicz
• Don Hertzfeldt

Designers

• Marimekko

Films & TV shows

• Billy’s Balloon
• Galaxy Quest
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Planet of the Apes
• Ran
• Shrek
• Snow White
• Superman
• The Wizard of Oz
• Waking Life
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Full Curriculum

Overview · Landscapes 1 · Landscapes 2

Video & Board Games

• Animal Crossing
• Candyland
• Everdell
• Minecraft
• Journey

Books

• Brave Irene
• The Zabajaba Jungle
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
• Alone in Space

• Vase with equestrian figure in landscape, mid-17th century
• Vase with gentlemen in a landscape (one of a pair), 1915–35
• Vase with poems in a panoramic landscape, late 17th century
• Tile Panel, Safavid period, first quarter 17th century
• Imitation Blue-and-white Bowl, 17th century
• Works Projects Administration Posters, 1936-1943

• The Unicorn Defends Himself (from the Unicorn Tapestries), 1495–1505
• Shepherd and Shepherdesses, 1500-1530
• Nymph of the Luo River, Gu Kaizhi
• Nativity, in a letter H cut from an Antiphonal, Illuminated Manuscript
• The Court of the Kayumars, 1524-1525
• Jahangir Visiting the Ascetic Jadrup, Govardhan