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: Landscapes
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Time: 30 minutes
Level: Year 4 and year 8
Approach: One to one
Focus: Students can identify similarities and differences in a range of styles of painting.
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Resources: Set of 12 photographic reproductions of landscape paintings by 6 artists (2 paintings from each artist).
Questions / instructions:
Different artists often make paintings in their own special way. I'm going to give you copies of 12 paintings, and I want you to group them into pairs. Each pair of pictures should be quite similar in the ways the artists have painted them. They should look as if they belong together.

1 2 3 4 5 6
Landscape 1 Landscape 2 Landscape 3 Landscape 4 Landscape 5 Landscape 6
Landscape 7 Landscape 8 Landscape 9 Landscape 10 Landscape 11 Landscape 12
7 8 9 10 11 12

Give the student the 12 pictures in order in a stack, numbered 1 to 12.
Help the student spread out the stack
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mean score
y4
y8
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1. Remember, you are going to put them into pairs, and each pair of pictures will be quite similar in the ways the artists have painted them.

Matching similar styles of painting:

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Percentage of students who correctly matched pairs of paintings in the same style
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paintings 1 and 4
58
69
paintings 2 and 7
85
95
paintings 3 and 10
46
60
paintings 5 and 8
71
86
paintings 6 and 12
78
88
paintings 9 and 11
36
53
Place picture 1 and picture 4 together — set aside the other pictures.
I want you to look carefully at the way these two pictures have been painted.
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1
Landscape 1
4
Landscape 4

2. Try to describe to me what is quite similar about the way the artist has painted these two pictures.
Prompt: What is similar about these two paintings?
Prompt: Why do these two paintings belong together?

Identification of similarities in paintings

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1 and 4: colours/tonal range used; colour effects/exaggerations (e.g. for sky–greens; tree trunks–blues); style/technique (swirly lines); sense of movement
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explains 3 features or elaborates well on 2 or more features
7 12
explains 2 features
22 34
explains 1 feature
49 47
any other response
22 7
Place pictures 2 and 7 together, and pictures 9 and 11 together. Put the other pictures aside.
This time I want you to look carefully at this pair of pictures (point to 2 and 7) and compare them with this pair (point to 9 and 11).
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2
7
Landscape 1
Landscape 4
9
11
Landscape 9
Landscape 11
3. Try to describe to me what is quite different about the way the artists have painted these two pictures (point to 2 and 7) and these two (point to 9 and 11).
Prompt: What is different about these two pairs of paintings?
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Identification of differences between pair of paintings 2 and 7 and pair of paintings 9 and 11:
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straight lines vs lack of lines (e.g. angular vs blurry); solid blocks of colour vs dotting/mixing; bold vs detailed shapes and elements.
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explains 3 features or elaborates well on 2 or more features
9
24
explains 2 features
27
35
explains 1 feature
40
31
any other response
24
9
Commentary:
A good percentage of both year 4 and year 8 students successfully matched pairs of paintings done in similar styles, and many were able to explain one or two features that were characteristically similar or different in particular styles of painting.
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