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| Art, Artists and Nature: The Hudson River School |
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Think about the paintings you saw when you were at the museum. Try to imagine yourself in one, walking along a road or in the mountains. What do you see/hear/smell/feel/touch? |
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| Discuss the concepts of foreground, middle ground, and background. Have students determine which types of scenery would be placed in each. (Ex. Would a volcano be placed in the foreground? How about a person? What is most important to see, and how do you show that in the landscape painting?) |
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| Take students on a walk near the school, perhaps to a nearby park. Have them make sketches, which will be brought back to class and used to make a finished drawing. Discuss choices made by the students. Did they sketch things that were left out of the final drawing? Did they add anything that wasn’t originally there? |
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| Have students write a poem about a place that they like, perhaps as a haiku. Have them include their feelings about the place, as well as what they see when they are there. Use examples from Romantic poets such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Wadsworth Longfellow, and William Cullen Bryant for comparison and discussion of the literary aspect of the Romantic Movement. |
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| Discuss the role of the Hudson River School in the environmental movement. The Hudson River artists were themselves disturbed by the changes they saw in nature in the 19th century, and wanted to capture the beauty of pristine nature. In the 1970s, the paintings were used once again by modern environmentalists to make people conserve the environment. Have students use Hudson River School images in their own ads and slogans regarding conservation of the environment, and have them present their ads to the rest of the class. |
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| Use the Asher Durand painting “An Old Man’s Reminiscences” to inspire a story from the point of view of the old man. Have the students write about what he sees, what he is thinking, and why he is there. |
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| The Romantic Movement was about literature, art, and music. Play Romantic Era music, and have the students draw images inspired by the music they hear. |
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| Read portions or all of James Fenimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans. Compare and contrast his portrayal of nature with that of the artists. |
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