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Landscape Painting - Artists Who Love the Land
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Landscape Painting: Artists Who Love the Land
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| What is a landscape painting? | A painting that shows land, like hills, rivers, trees, or mountains. |
| What is a landscape artist? | An artist who paints pictures of nature and the land, almost like a magician creating a whole world with paint. |
| Who was George Catlin? | An artist who traveled west to paint pictures of Native Americans and the land along the Missouri River. |
| Who was Thomas Moran? | An artist who painted Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon; his paintings helped make Yellowstone the first national park. |
| Who was Albert Bierstadt? | An artist who traveled to California and painted big, impressive pictures of its wilderness. |
| Who was Winslow Homer? | An artist who loved painting the rocky ocean coast of Maine. |
| What is foreground? | The part of a painting that looks closest to us. |
| What is background? | The part of a painting that looks farthest away. |
| What is middleground? | The part of a painting between the foreground and background. |
| What is a horizon line? | The line in a painting where the land or sea seems to meet the sky. |
| Space Trick 1: Winding path | A winding river or path makes a painting look like it goes deep into the distance. |
| Space Trick 2: Changes in size | Things close to us look bigger; things far away look smaller. |
| Space Trick 3: Overlap | When one object covers part of another, it looks closer to us. |
| Space Trick 4: Changes in clarity | Things far away look blurry or hazy; things close up look clear. |
| Space Trick 5: Diagonal composition | Lines that slant across a painting make it look like they go back into space. |
| Where can an artist paint a landscape? | Outdoors, to see real colors and light, or indoors in a studio, using sketches made outside. |
| Why did these artists paint the American West and coast? | To help people see and love the beauty and size of the American land. |
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