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Places in the city
•Paintings of cities are generally called cityscapes and are considered a type of landscape art.
•Cities can provide artists with different subject matter to paint or draw such as architecture, crowds of people, street scenes, industry, transport and human activity.
•Artists have tried to convey the impressions and sensations of everyday urban life through a variety of means. This can include works on a large scale, untraditional compositions or dramatic contrasts of light and dark.
•How to express the busy throng and chatter of daily city life, the feelings of disorientation or loneliness experienced in a crowd, the smells, sounds and speed of the city challenged artists to experiment with new techniques, materials and forms of art.
•Look and discuss the artist’s visual observations by the following important artists of the past two centuries. What is each artist trying to convey about life and experiences in the city?
Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873, William Powell Frith, The Railway Station, 1862, Edvard Munch, Evening on Karl Johan, 1892, Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942, Fernand Leger, The City, 1919, Piet Mondrian, Broadway Boogie Woogie, 1942-43, John Brack, Collins Street 5 pm, 1955, Jeffrey Smart, Factory near Arezzo, Leaving LA, 2007 and Cahill Expressway.
•Now look at the following cityscapes that are part of the NERAM collections to find examples of the types of cityscapes artists have been painting since their development.
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