Landscape: Activity 3: Blog

Compare and contrast a landscape photograph with a landscape painting. Discuss the expressive possibilities of each medium using your examples to illustrate your argument. Choose your examples carefully as representative of the medium.

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Image by Bob Ross

Both of these landscape art pieces take place in Alaska. The top one is a photograph, while the other one is a painting. Both show a tall, white mountain behind, with a body of water and forestry in front of it. The painting is more dramatic, and has large, fluffy clouds behind the mountain in order to make it stand out. The painting is also able to use leading lines (the river leads your eyes to the mountain) while the photographer may not have found a chance to use leading lines. The photographer mainly focused on rule of thirds. The main subject in the photo is the girl in a canoe, which is located in the lower right point.