Learning
Educational Teacher’s Guide
Takao Tanabe’s representational and abstract landscape images work to capture the essence of time and place. This guide provides information and activity lesson plans to inspire students to learn and apply Tanabe’s style and techniques to their own artistic practice.
Key Objectives:
- Fine Arts (Visual Arts)
- Experience in-depth exploration of a Canadian artist’s style (Takao Tanabe).
- Create and develop artwork as a response to observation and discussion of exhibited artwork.
- Examine through practice and discussion the use of artistic techniques (watercolour, acrylic, and sumi painting; drawing) and concepts (landscape, abstract expressionism, realistic representation).
Included Information and Lesson Plans:
- About the Artist
- Vocabulary
- Activity 1: Expressing Emotion Through Art (Line and Colour)
- Activity 2: Realistic Landscapes (Composition)
- Activity 3: Graphite Drawings (Value)
- Activity 4a & 4b: Watercolour Techniques and Landscape Paintings
- Activity 5: Artist Statements and Gallery Worksheet: Observation Walk —Natural Landscape