Picture This!: Activities and Adventures in Impressionism (Art Explorers) - Hardcover

Raimondo, Joyce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823025039 ISBN 13: 9780823025039

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 2004

Synopsis

This second book in the Art Explorers series introduces kids to the world of impressionism, featuring the art of five famous impressionist artists: Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Edward Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Mary Cassatt. For each artist, a color reproduction of his or her famous artwork is paired with questions to get kids thinking about what they see. A short paragraph explains the artist's intentions, emphasizing facts of interest to kids. Easy-to-follow activities then provide hands-on experience with the artist's techniques, subject, and mediums, each illustrated with examples by actual kids. Techniques include drawing, painting, pastels, collage, watercolor resist painting, pointillism, sponge painting, mask-making, printmaking, sculpture, and more.

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About the Author

Joyce Raimondo is the author of numerous books, including The Art Safari Collage Kit (1-5871-7130-9), which sold more than 25,000 copies. Director of her own consulting company, she specializes in helping children access the arts. Her clients include the Children's Television Workshop, Blues' Clues, and the Pollack-Krasner House. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Grade 1-5 - With step-by-step activities, full-color reproductions, and examples of children's imitative art, this slim volume provides a creative and simple introduction to the Impressionists. After providing a bit of history about the movement, Raimondo introduces several artists and outlines their methods and contributions. For each individual, she presents a masterwork along with sentences that encourage children to look closely at it. This is followed by several easy projects that evoke that particular painter's style; they are designed to excite beginners with a wide range of media and interesting results. The text and activities describe Claude Monet's use of bright colors and brush strokes in his outdoor scenes; Camille Pissarro's city scenes and his use of light to indicate the weather and time of day; Edgar Degas's figures in motion; Pierre-Auguste Renoir's snapshotlike paintings of people having fun; and Mary Cassatt's family portraits. A "Notes to Adults" suggests ways to help youngsters explore the world of art, motivate creativity, and discover different media. Brief biographies of the painters are appended. A highly useful and entertaining book. - Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TX
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Edition details

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823025039
• ISBN 13: 9780823025039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48