#CapturingLives2020 Week Three

Find the resources and content for Week Three of the Capturing Lives project here.

Introduction

This week we're focusing on landscape painting, a type of art work that dates all the way back to antiquity. We've chosen a few of the many landscape paintings that our institutions have in their collections to show you the range of different types of landscape paintings and the techniques used. Watch the video below to find out more:

You'll find more examples of landscape paintings from the collections on our Microsoft Teams site, in the Week 3 Resources Folder, and we'd encourage you to explore those as well. You can also explore the art collections for yourself by visiting the websites:

University of Edinburgh Art Collection

University of Stirling Art Collection

Glasgow School of Art Collections and Archives

University of Aberdeen Art Collection on Art UK

University of Dundee Art Collection on Art UK

Download the transcript for this video here:

Looking at Landscapes Transcript (736.27 KB / PDF)

Recording Scotland Collection

The 'Recording Scotland' Collection from the University of St Andrews is a really interesting example of an art collection that was created in the 1940s specifically to record Scottish landscapes which people feared may be lost due to the war. Watch this video, from Stephanie Williams who works at the Wardlaw Museum to find out more:

Read the video transcript here:

Recording Scotland Collection: Transcript (89.71 KB / PDF)

You can also visit the Recording Scotland website to view some examples of the artwork and discover the different places recorded in the collection. There may be well a painting from where you're from!