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Artists Paint Fall & Spring

Kindergarten
Art Docent Program - Earhart Elementary School


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Paul Gauguin
[1848 – 1903]
was born in Paris, and spent 4 years of
his childhood in Peru. He developed a
style in which he painted bold, simple
shapes, often outlined, and filled with
flat areas of color. He liked to use
bright colors- red, orange, blue, and
green next to each other.
How many peasant women do you see
harvesting grain?
Can you stand and bend and move as
they are doing as they cut the grain?
What is the main in the foreground
doing?
What is on the oxen’s back?
What colors are the oxen’s heads?
What do you see in the background?
Can you find any shadows?

Harvest Scene


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Tzu Hsiang Chang 張熊 [号子祥]
[1803 - 1886]
was born in the Qing Dynasty. He
moved to Shanghai when he was
young. He had more than 10,000
pieces of antique and paintings. He
loved to paint flowers, birds, plants,
insects, vegetables, fruit and scene.
Do you know why this painting has
an interesting shape? [It is a lovely
fan combines a painting with
flowers, bugs along with a poem in
black calligraphic characters]
Chinese and Japanese made much
use of personal fans in their daily
lives. There are feather fans for
summer and silk for winter.

What is the brown thing on the left?
[Backyard landscape rock]

Blossoms


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Koryusai
Isoda Masakatsu, professionally
known as Korysai, was an artist of
the Ukiyo-e group, meaning he
made scenes of everyday life. He
was responsible for the first truly
individual portrait in the history of
Japanese prints.

Do you think she was caught in a
sudden rainstorm as she was out
walking?
Do you know what she was
wearing? [Kimono]
What are the most important colors
in this picture?
Do you see the rain? [Diagonal slant
of the rain is balanced by the
diagonal of the umbrella]

Autumn


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Vincent van Gogh
[1853 - 1890]
Vincent didn’t start out in life to be
an artist. He wanted to help ease
the suffering and misery of poor
people who worked in the coal
mines in Belgium, but he failed. Art
became a way of expressing his
emotions. He also liked to paint his
friends. His works are in museums
all over he world and are loved by
many people.

What do you see here?
Does it look as it might have just
rained?
Does this look like a pleasant place to
be?

Could you smell the orchard blossoms
if you were there?

Landscape at Arles: Orchard


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Camille Pissarro
[1830 - 1903]
was born of Jewish parents. He
loved to paint nature and was
happiest in the country. He left the
Virgin Islands for Paris at the age 25
to study art.

What do you see first when you look
at this quiet, peaceful painting?
Our eyes are attracted to the
woman and child as they walk
toward us, almost in the center of
the picture.
How would you describe the colors?
Would you like to walk in this
garden and pick some cabbages?

In the Garden


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Pieter Bruegel
[1525 - 1569]
was born in a place that is now part
Holland and part Belgium. He was
well-educated, cultured man, and
an original thinker. He was called
“Peasant Bruegel” because of his
painting of rustic life. He traveled
mostly on foot, more than 800 miles
to Italist to study art.
Can you almost feel the hot sunlight
shimmering on the golden fields?
Can you find the horizon?
How tall is the tree?
What are the people doing? [Eating,
sleeping, cutting, and tying bundles
of grain]
Can you find the picnic basket and
bread?
What kind of clothes are they
wearing?

Harvesters


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Alfred Sisley
[1839 - 1899]
He painted this picture more than
100 years ago. He was born in Paris
of English parents. He studied art
and liked to paint out in the open air
in the countryside around Paris.
Squint your eyes when you look
at this painting, just like you
might do on a bright, sunny day.
Where are the darkest places
when you squint your eyes?
Can you find any shadows?
What are the three main colors
he used?
How did he make the colors light?
[By using white with them]

Autumn Landscape


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