Week 7, 8, and 9

We are leaving  the bustling city life Paris for the

quiet atmosphere and beautiful scenery  of

Provence in the south of France.

During this time we hope to study:

• Self Portraits : Vincent did over 40 self

portraits. ( 20 of them were done while he was in Paris)

We will examine some of them. We will also  do our

own portrait. We will be using as a

guide. This book can be downloaded for free

from http://www.wowio.com/

http://www.portrait-artist.org/face/index.html

http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/portraitdrawinggrid.shtml

http://www.npg.si.edu/

This site has a cool video of Van Goghs Portraits:

http://www.weshow.com/us/p/24587/van_gogh_self_portraits

Below are 25 of Van Goghs self portraits.

This portrait is not of Van Gogh. It is a painting of Alexander Reid

by Van Gogh. Reid was a friend of Van Gogh. For many years this

portrait was thought to be of Van Gogh.

• We will do an indepth study of

Arles in Provence ( culture of the period, geography, so on)

http://www.france.com/docs/551.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arles

http://wiki.worldflicks.org/geography_of_france.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107517.html

http://www.discoverfrance.net/

• We will study Van Goghs works while in Arles.

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/van_gogh.htm   ( fantastic! )

http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=12264&lang=en

http://www.vggallery.com/painting/by_period/arles.htm

• We plan to start the timeline. I like to put this

off till the kids get an idea of how they want to do

their timeline. They need a knowledge base and idea

of where they have been to get started.Its really

up to the kids. Here are ideas on Timelines:

http://dohistory.org/on_your_own/toolkit/timeline.html

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/memory/timeline/

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/timeline/

http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/monet/monet.html

http://donnayoung.org/history/timeline.htm

http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/timeline.htm