Creation Workshop: Imagining Landscapes Short Writing Assignment: Imagining Landscapes
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Prompt
Read the article about the history of landscape painting, and view the selected examples of landscape paintings. Then write
a 1-2 paragraph response to the questions below:
• What similarities do you notice across these paintings? What differences do you notice?
• What choices do artists make when they create landscape paintings? What is the impact of these choices?
Use evidence from the article and the images to support your ideas.
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