David Hockney: Landscape, colour, pattern , line and shape

Scheme of work:

• Look at the work of David Hockney and copy one of his colourful landscape paintings. Click on link to see him painting a landscape outdoors

• Use  '10 questions about Art' to analyse your selected painting

• Link to visual analysis worksheet on David Hockney: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_05VyQo3sGUI1G5D5VDKiTGZ79Qwx9zE/view?usp=drive_link 

Questions to answer when writing about artworks.

• 1. What things do you see in the work of art?

• 2. Look carefully at the work of art in front of you. What colours do yousee in it? Are they all similar or different to each other?

• 3. What do you think is going on in this work of art?

• Is there a story or event going on?

• 4. Does anything you have noticed in this work of art so far remind you of something in your own life, something you’ve seen or experienced?

• 5. Is this work of art true to life? How real has the artist made things look?Give a reason for your answer.

• 6. What ideas and emotions do you think this work of art expresses? Is it calm / noisy, happy / sad,soothing / disturbing, relaxing / jarring.

• 7. Do you have a sense of how the artist might have felt when he or she made this work of art? Does it make you feel one way or another?

• 8. What would you have called this work of art if you had made it yourself? Does the title of the work, if there is one, make sense to you?

• 9. Think back on your previous observations. What have you discovered from looking at this work of art? Have you learned anything about yourself or others?

• 10. Do you like this work of art? Why or why not? Has your reaction to the work changed? Do you like it more or less than you did in the beginning of your investigation? Why?