Imagined Landscapes
for Ark Littleridge, Chester, 7th July 2025What is a landscape?
In Japanese landscape paintings, they don’t actually use the word landscape, the word they use roughly translates to ‘mountain and water’.
Let’s have a look at some examples,
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/object-package/wandering-through-streams-and-mountains-landscape-painting-east-asia/125164
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanga_%28Japanese_painting%29
Imagine a Landscape
What can you see?
Are you looking up at the mountains or are you looking out from the top of one? Or a totally different view?
What is the weather like?
What does it feel like to be there?
Using the materials provided, lets create a picture of what you imagined.