free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com WRITTEN BY J Jean Robertson Art and Music www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Level: N Word Count: 408 Words 100th word: at page Area Content lar y: Vocabu st What li e h t d Rea mean? s d r o w these color tion imagina n impressio light tive perspec s pigment scenes studios subject e techniqu Building Background Knowledge Before reading a book, it is important to tap into what your child or students already know about the topic This will help them develop their vocabulary, increase their reading comprehension, and make connections across the curriculum Look at the cover of the book What will this book be about? What you already know about the topic? Let’s study the Table of Contents What will you learn about in the book’s chapters? What would you like to learn about this topic? Do you think you might learn about it from this book? Why or why not? Use a reading journal to write about your knowledge of this topic Record what you already know about the topic and what you hope to learn about the topic Read the book In your reading journal, record what you learned about the topic and your response to the book Complete the activities at the end of the book free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Written by J Jean Robertson rourkeeducationalmedia.com www.ebook777.com Scan for Related Titles and Teacher Resources free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com © 2014 Rourke Educational Media All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publisher www.rourkeeducationalmedia.com PHOTO CREDITS: Cover: © Burstein Collection; all but page 13: © Wikipaintings; page 13: © wime (inset) Edited by Precious McKenzie Cover and Interior design by Tara Raymo Library of Congress PCN Data A Look at Impressionist Art / J Jean Robertson (Art and Music) ISBN 978-1-62169-876-0 (hard cover) ISBN 978-1-62169-771-8 (soft cover) ISBN 978-1-62169-976-7 (e-Book) Library of Congress Control Number: 2013936785 Rourke Educational Media Printed in the United States of America, North Mankato, Minnesota Also Available as: rourkeeducationalmedia.com customerservice@rourkeeducationalmedia.com • PO Box 643328 Vero Beach, Florida 32964 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Table of Contents What is Impressionist Art? The Beginning The Masters 14 The Benefits of Art 22 Glossary 23 Index 24 Websites to Visit 24 About the Author 24 www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com What is Impressionist Art? This 1874 painting titled The Monet Family in their Garden by Edouard Manet is of Claude Monet’s family, a fellow impressionist painter Impressionist art is the name for a style of painting that began in France in the 1860s and continued into the 1880s free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Art Fact When pronouncing French names, the ending “s” and “t” are usually silent The Promenade, Woman with a Parasol by Claude Monet,1875 In Impressionist art, the painter uses lots of color The painting gives an impression of the scene, with the imagination of the viewer supplying the details www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com The Beginning In 1874, Claude Monet displayed Impression, Sunrise, at a Paris art show From that time on, all paintings in that style have been called Impressionist free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Claude Monet (1840–1926) Claude Monet was fascinated by light and the way changing light made things look different He made groups of paintings that showed the same scene in different lights, such as sunrise, noon, and sunset www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Impressionist artists began painting scenes from the everyday lives of ordinary people These paintings show the average French person in the late 1800s at work and at play free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Berthe Morisot was the leading French woman artist of the Impressionist period Her paintings such as Reading with Green Umbrella (1873), showed the restrictions of her class and gender 12 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com A new material saved time and mess Can you guess what it was? It was paint that came in tubes Before this invention, painters had to grind and mix their own pigments before they painted The tubes of paint gave the artists more freedom to paint wherever they wished Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) 13 www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com The Masters The Bridge at Argenteuil Claude Monet, 1874 14 Because the Impressionist artists Alfred Sisley and Claude Monet lived near each other and worked together so often, they began to things much the same way This sometimes made it hard to tell who painted what picture free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com L’Inondation Port-Marly Alfred Sisley, 1876 Alfred Sisley’s landscape, L’Inondation Port-Marly, looks as though it could have been painted by Monet Monet’s Bridge at Argenteuil could be mistaken for a painting by Sisley 15 www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Georges Seurat was an artist-magician His idea about painting was to paint, not with brush strokes, but with thousands of dots of paint He expected the eye of the observer to fill in the gaps to create a whole image This technique, called pointillism, had been tried before, but had never gained popularity 16 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Georges Seurat’s 1884 painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, is his most famous example of pointillistic painting 17 www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Paul Cezanne developed a different way of painting, which he called internal perspective In his view, all of nature was a combination of cylinders, spheres, cubes, and cones 18 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Paul Cezanne’s painting, Mont Sainte-Victoire, shows his idea of geometric shapes as the base of natural design, and also shows the use of color splotches typical in Impressionist painting This painting was painted from 1885 to 1887 Paul Cezanne (1839–1906) 19 www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) 20 Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s 1881 painting, Boating Party Lunch, is his most famous work free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the three painters who formed the original Impressionist group Renoir’s work was easily recognized by its pretty, smiling girls wearing full dresses, hats, and carrying parasols Although he was a master in Impressionist painting, Renoir moved away from Impressionism in his later paintings 21 www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com The Benefits of Art The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh, 1889 Many Impressionist paintings are available for us to study and enjoy The technique of using splotches of color to give the feeling of dancing water and light is still used by artists today The artists’ willingness to try different ways of painting, even when others laughed, inspired others to try new ways of doing things 22 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Glossary geometric (jee-uh-MET-rik): the outside surface of shapes, such as cubes and triangles internal (in-TUR-nuhl): something that happens inside a person or thing perspective (pur-SPEK-tiv): in art, distant things smaller than close ones, so they look further away pigments (PIG-muhntz): the color from materials such as soils and plants, which can be used to make paints and dyes pointillism (POIN-tuhl-iz-uhm): the theory or practice of creating a picture by using many small spots of color subject (SUHB-jikt): in art, a person or thing that is being drawn, painted or sculpted technique (tek-NEEK): a method or way of doing something that requires skill, as in the arts 23 www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Index France Monet 4, 6, 7, 14, 15 perspective 18 pointillism 16 subject 10 studios 10 Websites www.ArtSmarts4Kids:Impressionism www.ducksters.com/history/art/impressionism.php www.pragmaticmom.com/2013/01/impressionist-art-project-for-kids About the Author J Jean Robertson, also known as Bushka to her grandchildren and many other kids, loves to read, travel, and write books for children She, her husband, and children spent one summer traveling Europe and were privileged to enjoy much of the Impressionist art, which can still be seen today Meet The Author! www.meetREMauthors.com 24 free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Comprehension and Extension Activities After reading the book, work on the following questions with your child or students in order to check their level of reading comprehension and content mastery When did Impressionist art begin? Why is this form of art called Impressionist? Name some of the most famous Impressionist painters How did Impressionist painters use light? How did a new invention, paint in tubes, change the way painters worked? Extension Activity Think about how Impressionist painters used natural light Take your paints and paper outside Find a scene to paint www.ebook777.com free ebooks ==> www.ebook777.com Art and Music Impressionist art is a style in which the artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it The pictures are loaded with color and most are of outdoor scenes The artists liked to capture their images not with detail, but with bold colors Learn all about the greatest impressionist artists like Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot and Pierre-Auguste Renoir This title will allow students to explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text Books In This Series Include: A Look at Cubism A Look at Impressionist Art A Look at Pop Art A Look at Renaissance Art A Look at Urban Art A Listen to Classical Music A Listen to Jazz A Listen to Patriotic Music A Listen to Rock ‘N’ Roll A Listen to World Music rourkeeducationalmedia.com ... in a historical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text Books In This Series Include: A Look at Cubism A Look at Impressionist Art A Look at Pop Art A Look. .. 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