Drawing lessons - illustrated lesson notes for teachers and students

Art appreciation and some definitions of 'fine art'

3. Message - I want to paint because I have a message to communicate.

Fig 7. (above) Never has design, contrast and color been so forcefully used in the cause of humanity. A rare feat:

no action photograph could ever compete.

Fig 8 There is little decoration or subtlety in this painting titled "Executions at Portsmouth'.

The examples are selected to best illustrate their category by single-mindedly ignoring the other two(ie. in the

decorative category the artist has made no attempt at description nor is there any message to be had. In the

second category decoration and message are absent whereas the message in the third category swamps

everything else.)

To show I am unbiased the last example in each category is one of my own paintings.

STUDENT ACTIVITY: Make you own list of five paintings nominating their categories. Note - some might

have more than one category and if so you must name them.

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