Fantastic Places
The Earth As Art
Key questions:
- Can satellite images be interpreted artistically?
Key concepts:
Place
Space
Scale
Can satellite images be interpreted artistically?
Artists have long been inspired by the World around them, from Constable’s paintings of the English Countryside, Turner’s famous paintings showing the roughness of nature, with bleak landscapes and violent storms to Lowry’s depictions of Industrial Britain. But with the advent of satellites and the imagery they capture from Space the Earth can be now be observed, artistically or otherwise, from a wider range of scales.
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Downloads:
Exemplar Artwork earth images (student work): http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/artworkearth/
Earth As Art NASA site: http://earthasart.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.htm
Artwork Earth: How To guide from Juicy Geography: http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/blog/?p=163
Flickr Motivator site: http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/motivator.php