Task 6. Describing your favourite landscape painting.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 412.

Prepare a presentation of your favourite landscape painting. Follow the plan below. Remember to use active vocabulary of the unit.

1. Name the painting and the painter.

2. What do you see in this painting?

3. Where do you think this is?

4. What kind of mood or feeling does the painting convey?

5. What colours are used? How does the colour express a feeling or meaning? Is there any correlation between the choice of colours and the mood they project? Why or why not? Consider colours used and mood of the paintings.

6. What purposes do the objects serve in the composition?

7. How are the lines expressive in the painting?

8. Is there repetition of line or shape or colour? What effect does it have?

9. Does the painting accurately portray life?

10. What would happen to the mood and meaning of the painting if the colour scheme, the arrangement of the objects or shapes were changed?

11. How and where does your eye move around the picture? Why?

12. What feeling do you have after looking carefully at this painting? What gives you this feeling?

13. List the sounds and smells that you would experience in the settings of the painting?

14. Choose a piece of music that would be in harmony with this work.

15. Tell what you would experience walking through this painting.

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