Magnificent Modern Art - Vincent van Gogh

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!

Last week it was Impressionism and the artist Mary Cassatt.

This week we are studying

Vincent van Gogh
Post Impressionism (1880s - 1914)

sample artwork from the art movement

Georges Seurat
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
1884-1886

Paul Cézanne
Curtain, Jug and Fruit Bowl
1893-1894

Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec
At the Moulin Rouge
1892-1895

sample artwork from this artist

Café Terrace at Night
1888

Sunflowers
1888

The Starry Night
1889

focus piece of art from this artist

Irises
1889

element & principle of art and design

EMPHASIS

other notes (my suggestions)

5 Things You Need to Know About Van Gogh's Self Portraits
Van Gogh Museum

Faber-Castell Gelatos would be great for this and we have a set that even comes with a palette knife!



Van Gogh by Jacques Lassaigne


Vincent's Colors
by Vincent van Gogh


Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
by Ingo Walther and Rainer Metzger

Starry Night Puzzle for Young Children

Starry Night is also featured in Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis



blog post - The Shining Loaf
October 2018

I am really lucky that my cousin Mary has the complete letters of Vincent van Gogh




Henri Rousseau
by Ernest Lloyd Raboff

a friend recommended this to me... pointillism with pine needles! what a great idea for summer camp or an outdoor art class

and, lo and behold, I have an old blog post from 2010 about Pointillism Gift Tags

and more...

Discovering Great Artists: Hands-On Art for Children in the Styles of the Great Masters
by MaryAnn Kohl and Kim Solga
Vincent van Gogh - "Impasto," p.46
Vincent van Gogh - "Starry Night," p.47
Paul Cézanne - "Seeing Shapes Still-Life," p.48
Henri Rousseau - "Jungle Prints," p.49
Paul Gauguin - "Surprising Colors," p.51
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - "Event Poster," pp.52-53
Georges Seurat - "Pointillist Color Cards," p.54
Édouard Vuillard - "Artist's Studio," p.55

available online as a FREE PDF from Bright Ring Publishing



Using Art to Create Art: Creative Activities Using Masterpieces
by Wendy Libby
Paul Cézanne, pp.33-39
Paul Gauguin, pp.83-87
Henri Rousseau, pp.187-192
Georges Seurat, pp.193-198
Vincent van Gogh, pp.199-210

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