Description: Students will strengthen their background knowledge about the elements of art in this tour that highlights perspective, value, color theory, patterning, line, and texture. 

Concepts: Art (Analyze and reflect on the elements of art and design to communicate ideas)

Resources: See Getty Museum, Understanding Formal Analysis

Elements of Art: http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/elements_art.pdf

Principles of Design: http://www.getty.edu/education/teachers/building_lessons/principles_design.pdf    

Stop 1: Mount Hood from the Dalles

Perspective and recession

Value

Stop 2: View of Fortifications, vanRuysdael

Clouds, patterns of light and dark

Perspective

Saturation / intensity

Stop 3: Monet, and swing by the tonalists

Breaks from traditional landscapes, thicker brushstrokes, limited palettes, texture

Similarity to other landscapes

Stop 4: Mitchell White Territory

Texture

Thickness

Form

Stop 5: Black and White Scroll

Cultural differences of art production shown in color, perspective, line, and absence of light source.