Cultural landscape and slovenian painting

The aim of the thesis work was to show the relationship between painting and slovenian cultural landscape and present a plan teaching art workshops on the topic. The work consists of two parts. The theoretical part shows the starting point for the presentation of the concept of cultural landscape. It presents the formation of terms of cultural landscape, its importance, the type of cultural landscape and its components. The work is focused on the development of landscape design in Slovenian art from ancient times through contemporary art and the relationship of landscape to landscape space. The practical part contains creative art workshop of the cultural landscape. Presented is the purpose of art workshops, where is initial motivation stemmed from the importance of the cultural landscape, its diversity and value, and its relationship to attitudes toward people. In the first part young artists painted the most representative section of the landscape and the most remarkable part of their town. They painted in mixed media collage using natural materials gathered around the scene and tempera paints. In the second part they painted a panoramic view of their place for the elements of the cultural landscape. In this part they painted in mixed media collage using newsprint and tempera paints. The survey found that students understand the importance of the cultural landscape and its contents and they enrich reliving their place