Students visit an on-line art museum in Paris, analyze several landscapes, and explore the painting techniques. They become familiar with distinctive aspects of classical Impressionist landscape paintings.

Students explore various impressionist works and examine their use of color. A scale of color from dark to light is created using tints and shades of all primary and secondary colors. Impressionists techniques are utilized.

Students draw on their knowledge of Impressionist and Asian landscapes to reflect on the differences found in the two genres of landscape painting.