Activity 3

Compare and contrast a landscape photograph with a landscape painting. Discuss the expressive possibilities of each medium using your examples to illustrate your argument. Choose your examples carefully as representative of the medium. 

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Christina Del Sol

The two pictures above have the same subject matter in them, Sedona's Red Mountains, yet the two pictures are very different and portray a different emotion. the image above shows beauty and darkness contrasting each other while the image below is more of a child's representation of life which is happy and graceful. this just shows that it doesn't matter if everyone uses the same space to make there art because what you are trying to portray is ever changing and that shows in everyones different art work. personally i love the below one more because am a huge fan of the abstract and it is a powerful piece to me.

Nature Contrast

Find two landscape photographs that question social values or act as a metaphor for personal issues that the photographer is trying to express. Discuss whether the communication is clear or ambiguous and how this communication is conveyed.

The image below shows a deep contrast between nature and urban civilization. The lighting used in this photo show how different the two can be but still have a sense of unity and tranquility. The photographer used light in a big way to have deep dark colors for nature and bright light for the city. it is a reminder that no matter how much we build nature will always be growing right along side us

Photo by Ata

The next image below is a city pipe with a sapling growing inside. This is a little different from the other image because it is not a half and half contrast. instead this shows that no matter how much we try and get ride of it nature will find a way to out do us in any way it can. this is the true beauty of nature, no matter how much we hurt it it is always there for us in the strangest ways sometimes.

Photo by Christiano Quadrar

landscape activity 1

View the image by Walker Evans on this page and describe what you can actually see (objective analysis) and what you think the image is about (subjective analysis).

Discuss how effective Walker Evans has been in using a landscape image to communicate a point of view. Can this photograph be considered as Art? Give two reasons to support your answer.

Walker Evans

the image above shows a graveyard with a backdrop of a mining town in Pennsylvania, however i personally see the difference between life and death in this image. the photo shows that death is always there but you can still live along side that reality. Walker Evans did an amazing job at portraying that in this landscape photo.This image can be considered art because of the mood it is trying to express. it tells us that no matter what or how good are life is death is always going to be waiting, but that is ok because we can still live happy with it there.