This document provides guidance for analyzing landscape paintings by looking for key elements such as the foreground, middle ground, and background to understand depth and scale; movement to understand flow; the focal point to understand emphasis; and texture to understand surfaces. Students are instructed to analyze a landscape image in four paragraphs describing, analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating the painting based on these elements.

1. LANDSCAPE PAINTING
• Foreground
• Middle ground
In the following paintings you • Background
need to look for: • Movement
• Focal Point
• Scale
• Texture

2. FOREGROUND, MIDDLEGROUND
AND BACKGROUND.

3. FOREGROUND, MIDDLEGROUND
AND BACKGROUND.

4. FOREGROUND, MIDDLEGROUND
AND BACKGROUND.

5. MOVEMENT AND SCALE

6. MOVEMENT AND SCALE

7. MOVEMENT AND SCALE

8. FOCAL POINT AND TEXTURE

9. FOCAL POINT AND TEXTURE

10. CLASS GROUP ANALYSIS
• Describe
• Analyze
• Interpret
• Evaluate

11. NOW IT IS YOUR TURN

12. NOW IT IS YOUR TURN
Homework
Find a landscape image.
Copy and paste it onto Word or Pages.
Analyze the image following the 4
stages one paragraph each.
Describe
Analyze
Interpret
Evaluate