Saturday, June 18, 2022

Magnificent Modern Art - Mary Cassatt

This summer a tutoring client and I are going through the Magnificent Modern Art course from Art History Kids together. It's been really interesting so far. Art History isn't something I ever really learned about, so it's new to me. And so, of course, I'm going to keep some notes here as we go along!


Mary Cassatt
Impressionism (1862 - 1892)

sample artwork from the art movement

    Claude Monet
    Impression, Sunrise
    1872

    Berthe Morisot
    The Butterfly Hunt
    1874

    Pierre-Auguste Renoir
    Luncheon of the Boating Party
    1880-1881


sample artwork from this artist

    Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
    1878

    The Boating Party
    1893-1894

    Young Mother Sewing
    1900


focus piece of art from this artist

    Children Playing on the Beach
    1884


element & principle of art and design

    SCALE


other notes (my suggestions)

    do "Make Your Own Paint" activity from page 31 of Amazing Leonardo da Vinci Inventions: You Can Build Yourself by Maxine Anderson

    look through A Child's Book of Art by Lucy Micklethwait and try to identify some paintings that are from the Impressionist movement

    look at images from Degas wall calendar

    read Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus

    another nice option to introduce the concept of scale is Sam and Dave Dig a Hole (even though we can't see the largest crystal, how do we know it is enormous? because it goes completely off the page and because we can see the size of Sam / Dave / the dog in relation to it)


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