Let's go to an art museum. Go to the attached website and explore the Panoramas. As you visit the different pages, take notes on the techniques and "rhetorical" strategies employed by panoramas of different time-periods and different subjects. In your first post, summarize the virtual museum's exhibition. What is it about, what did you learn, etc.
In your second post, link to the panorama (or thematic group) that resonates with you the most, explain why, and note how the format of panoramas applies to this picture or group of pictures.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Landscapes/edu-e.html
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The virtual museum’s exhibition was split into four sections, The Evolving Landscape, The Social Landscape, The Mythic Landscape, and The Personal Landscape. All the panoramas were taken or painted in North America alone. The Evolving Landscape showed what was left in nature and what has happened to it because of industrialization by humans. The Social Landscape shows cultural meaning along with the development of the city. My favorite, The Mythic Landscape was about the history or stories of the countries. A really good example would be Catedral de Oaxaca (Oaxaca Cathedral) by José María Velasco. It illustrates how important the church was compared to the government in Mexico. Finally, The Personal Landscape is how an artist views something, no matter how outrageous it looks. Through viewing this I learned that North America has or use to have beautiful landscapes before developing gigantic cities and factories. North America also has a lot of history behind it that most of us don’t know about because it wasn’t in our textbooks at school. You can see all the changes in society and nature through the paintings that the artists have let for us to see hundreds of years after they created it.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Landscapes/m-c3-e.php3#
The picture titled “Buffalo” was the most powerful one that I looked at. I know that buffalo have always been a symbol of the prairie. I also know that they are endangered due to the expansion of humans westward in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. The painting by Frederick A. Verner depicts the buffalo calmly eating without a worry in the world. That’s how they use to be before the expansion. Making this painting into a panorama was a smart move because it shows how empty the prairie is and it seems like a nice, cool overcast day with the buffalo going about their day.
Thanks for posting, Raven. Did you like this excersize? Did you use any of the tools we discussed on our Visual Literacy Outline?
I thought this was one of the better blogs. I did use some of the tools, but I didn't think to look at the outline when I did the blog.
The site is made up of different landscape pictures all made or taken in only North America.
The site is divided into four sections.
THE EVOLVING LANDSCAPE
In this section they say that a landscape is a "biography of the constantly changing earth." These landscapes show not only what's there, but also what the artist see's there and what they want you to see there.
THE SOCIAL LANDSCAPE
These landscape pictures show the people of North America living together and interacting with one another. In First Meeting, it shows the first meeting (creative?) of "European visitors with Inuit people." The artist made the picture very simple, it's not cluddered and you know exactly what's going on.
THE MYTHIC LANDSCAPE
These landscapes show pure beauty before the creation of what North America is today. They tell the story of how the landscape we see now came to be. i really like the border the artist used because it makes you notice the picture more, it frames what you're supposed to see.
THE PERSONAL LANDSCAPE
These landscapes are whateve the artists want them to be. It's they're journey rather then the landscapes. George Bedard's picture shows his imagination, how he sees his life.
The site shows the entire story of the landscape of North America.
I think the personal landscape relates to me the most. Easy enough, because it's personal. I could make it whatever I wanted it to be. I could show you what I want you to see when you think of me. The personal landscape is a very personal thing (hence the name).
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