This is a great reference for home school teachers and all educators. Presented are
instructions for art projects in the style of French Impressionists Renoir,
Degas, Monet, Cassatt, Cezanne, etc.
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Carol Sabbeth
Chicago Review Press
Softcover
11 x 8 1/2 inches
140
1-55652-397-1
2002
9 and up
1
$ 18.95
$ 12.04
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Why You Will Like This Book
If you are a student of art, ages nine and up, Monet and the Impressionists will
captivate you. Sabbath includes fascinating background material about the nineteenth century French
Impressionists and Post Impressionists that serves to intensify the reader's appreciation for the
beautiful, full-color representations of the artists' work.
Synopsis
Monet and the Impressionists for Kids discusses the nineteenth-century French art
movement known as impressionism, focusing on the works of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Cézanne
Gauguin, and Seurat. Also includes 21 related projects and activities.
Description
Included in this art appreciation book for children are:
a time line of historical events from 1856 - 1990
an introduction to the art movement known as impressionism
biographies of Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas,
Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, and Georges Seurat.
21 Activities with instructions on creating something in the style of an impressionist artist.
Birthdays of Famous Artists
| January
|
| Calder
|
11
|
1889
|
| Morisot
|
14
|
1841
|
| Cézanne
|
19
|
1839
|
| Manet
|
23
|
1832
|
| Pollock
|
28
|
1912
|
| February
|
| Homer
|
24
|
1836
|
| Renoir
|
25
|
1841
|
| March
|
|
|
| Michelangelo
|
6
|
1475
|
| Mondrian
|
7
|
1872
|
| Dali
|
11
|
1904
|
| Van Gogh
|
30
|
1853
|
| April
|
|
|
Raphael
|
6
|
1483
|
| Leonardo da Vinci
|
15
|
1452
|
| Audubon
|
26
|
1785
|
| May
|
|
|
Gainsborough |
14
|
1727
|
| Dürer
|
21
|
1471
|
| Rousseau
|
21
|
1844
|
| Cassatt
|
22
|
1844
|
| June
|
|
|
Gauguin
|
7
|
1848
|
| Wright |
8
|
1867
|
| Courbet
|
10
|
1819
|
| Constable
|
11
|
1776
|
| Rubens
|
28
|
1577
|
| July
|
|
|
Kahlo |
6
|
1910
|
| Chagall |
7
|
1887
|
| Rembrandt
|
15
|
1606
|
| Degas
|
19
|
1834
|
| Moore
|
30
|
1898
|
| August
|
|
|
Warhol |
8
|
1930
|
| September
|
|
|
| Arp |
16 |
1887 |
| October
|
|
|
| Ringgold |
8 |
1930 |
| Picasso |
25 |
1881 |
| Lichtenstein |
27 |
1923 |
| November
|
|
|
| Rodin |
12 |
1840 |
| ">Monet
|
14 |
1840 |
| O'Keeffe |
15 |
1887 |
| Toulouse-Lautrec |
24 |
1864 |
| Blake |
28 |
1757 |
| December
|
|
|
| Seurat
|
2 |
1859 |
| Kandinsky |
4 |
1866 |
| Munch |
12 |
1863 |
| Klee |
18 |
1879 |
| Matisse |
31 |
1869 |
Birthday information is from "Great Artist Birthdays", p. 138 in Discovering Great Artists
by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga
If you are a teacher or parent, you may want to plan a particular art project around
a student's or artist's birthday. The artists' names in green are featured in Monet and the Impressionists
for Kids.
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