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February 4th
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Today we compared and contrasted the two paintings below. The kids did a Venn Diagram.
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We learned about Van Goghs friendship with Emile Bernard.
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We began reading Vincent Van Gogh Portrait of an Artist by Jan Green ( we should have started this wonderful book weeks ago. I just found it at the library)
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We discovered Van Goghs Paris, his lodgings, daily habits, his friends and so much more.
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We learned what , Neo Impressionism and Impressionsim is. We also studied Pointillism.
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The kids started on a Pointillism work.
Breton Women in the Meadow/ Pardon at Pont-Aven, 1888 by Emile Bernard
Breton Women and Children, Arles 1888 , Van Gogh
February 5th
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Today we compared and contrast the pictures below. The kids did a Venn
Diagram on the two sets of paintings.
Noonday Rest Van Gogh
Noonday Rest Millet
The Sower Van Gogh
The Sower Millet ( above)
More paintings by Van Gogh all titled " The Sower"
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Questions you might ask: What does it mean to be influenced
by someone? How was Van Gogh influenced by Bernard and Millet?
Was the work Van Gogh did a complement to the artist whose style
he copied? What simularities/differences in the paintings? What
media do you think each artist used?
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We read more in the book Vincent Van Gogh Portrait of an Artist
by Jan Green.
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We also read about his life while he was in Paris.
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While I was reading the kids did a water color with an outline drawing
of Millet's The Sower. Go here to get the outline print: http://www.colormeonline.com/masterpiece/paintings/paintsower.html
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Web sites on Venn Diagrams:
http://www.graphic.org/venbas.html
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/venn/
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/venn/
http://www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#graphicOrganizers
February 6th Wednesdays are light days as our schedule is busy.
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We do like this compare and contrast thing! When I found that
Van Goghs First Steps was a copy of Millets First Steps we just had to
take a look. I have a print hanging in my house of Van Goghs First Steps.
I love this painting. The delicate play on light, the timeless topic, all the
fine detail, and the wonderful soothing colors.
Van Goghs First Steps
Go here for Jean Francous Millets First Steps:
http://www.lrma.org/JEAN%20MILLET.pdf
February 7th
- Today we looked at The Good Samaritan by Van Gogh after
Delacroix, Millit and Henry Pijcke. I used some notes from this article: http://www.newmediabible.org/1goodsam/travel/07luke103637/articles/RTFfiles/visualimagesofgsaml.rtf
We looked at the bibical account of The Good Samaritan. Read in our current book and read more on Paris.
Van Gogh Good Samaritan
Millet Good Samaritan (above)
Henry Pijcke The Good Samaritan
This is the only picture I could find of Delacroix's The Good Samaritan.
While the image is legal to copy, it is very poor.
However enough to see that it is very different
from the above copies of his style. I will replace the image as soon as I find a better one!
The kids really had a good time finding things in each of the paintings, comparing and contrasting, and learning about how artist learned from each other.
February 8th
- Free Day. My 13yo chose to copy The Arlesienne.
Van Gogh's
My daughters
I think she did a great job.
My 11yo loves pointillism and worked on a
pointillism composition.
Read more from the book on Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh Portrait of an Artist
by Jan Green. A note here about content. The book does tell of his relationships with a women of the streets. I felt it good to share with my children. We talked about his loneliness, his disagreements with religion of the church, the strained family relationships, and his lack of relationship with God. We searched the Word to learn what it says about this kind of behavior. Since our family does street ministry our children are aware of these types of things. We are teaching them to have a strong relationship with the Lord, to stand on their own belief not that of the church or their parents but one of the Word of God.
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