Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities (For Kids series)

153 Pages·2002·9.18 MB·english

by  Carol Sabbeth

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Monet and the Impressionists for Kids
Monet
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Their Lives and Ideas 21 Activities
Impressionists
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Carol Sabbeth
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To Eileen Landstrom, a masterpiece Mom
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sabbeth, Carol, 1957– About the Author
Monet and the impressionists for kids / Carol Landstrom Carol Sabbeth presents art workshops to children and
Sabbeth.
teachers throughout the United States. She recently
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began performing as a storyteller, impersonating the
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt. In her monologue,
Summary: Discusses the nineteenth-century French art move-
ment known as Impressionism, focusing on the works of Monet, she tells the tale of Monet and the Impressionists.
Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Seurat. Includes Carol is the author of Crayons and Computersand
related projects and activities. Kids’ Computer Creations. She lives in Denver, Colorado,
ISBN 1-55652-625-3
with her husband, Alex.
1. Impressionism (Art)—Juvenile literature. 2. Art, French—
19th century—Juvenile literature. 3. Impressionist artists—
France—Biography—Juvenile literature. [1. Impressionism (Art)
2.Art, French—19th century.] I. Title. FRONT COVER:Left: Claude Monet, Water Lilies; Claude
Monet, photograph H. Roger-Viollet, Paris; Right, top to bot-
N6847.5.I4 S23 2002
759.05'4—dc21 tom: Gustave Caillebotte, Paris: A Rainy Day;Edgar Degas,
2001047191 Dancers at the Bar; Pierre Auguste Renoir, Two Sisters (On
the Terrace), 1881, Oil on Canvas, 100.5 cm x81 cm, Mr. and
Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection, 1933.455,
Cover and interior design: Joan Sommers Design
photograph courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago.
Printed in Singapore BACKCOVER:Top to bottom: Pierre Auguste Renoir, The
Ball at the Moulin de la Galette; Mary Cassatt, The Bath;
© 2002 by Carol Sabbeth and Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Curtain and Flowered
All rights reserved Pitcher.
First edition
Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN 1-55652-397-1
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Contents
About the Author iv
Acknowledgments vii
Time Line viii
Introduction xi
Pierre Auguste Renoir
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PART I: THE IMPRESSIONISTS
How to Draw a Face 50
Galette des Rois (Twelfth Night Cake) 57
A New Way of Looking
at the World 3 Edgar Degas 59
Art-to-Go Knapsack 19 Camera Capers 68
Take a Visual Voyage 20
Impression, Me 21 Mary Cassatt 71
Every Picture Tells a Story 76
Claude Monet
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Painting the Shimmering Sky 26
Painting Reflections 30
Monet’s Garden 35
Mini Haystack and Field 40
Paper Water Lily 43
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Lasting Impressions
125
Picture Me 130
Picture Plugged In 130
Bingo Monet 130
Art Critic 130
PART II: THE POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
Paul Cézanne
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Still Life à la Cézanne 90
Stenciling Cézanne 97
Paul Gauguin
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Cup of Gauguin 107
Armchair Explorer 109
Georges Seurat
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Glossary 131
Bibliography 134
Seurat Sugar Cookies 123
Image Credits 136
Index 139
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Acknowledgments
I give many thanks to Linda Brady Tesner for her valued impression of my manuscript, and
to Clarinda Hanson White, art education specialist, for sharing her ideas and experiences.
Special thanks go to Cynthia Sherry and my editor, Lisa Rosenthal of Chicago Review Press.
I’m also indebted to Yves Berthelot for his help with everything French; Shirley Sabbeth,
museum buddy extraordinaire; and, as always, my husband, Alex, for his editing skills and
enthusiasm.
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Time Line
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1856 Monet (at age 15) paints 1870 Franco–Prussian War; 1877 Third Impressionist
with Eugène Boudin France defeated at Sedan Exhibition
and Napoléon III captured
1860 Abraham Lincoln elected 1879 Fourth Impressionist
president of the United 1873 Marshal MacMahon elect- Exhibition
States ed president of France
Cézanne no longer exhibits
1862 Monet and Renoir meet 1874 First Impressionist in the Impressionist
at art school (Gleyre’s Exhibition exhibitions
studio) Among the artists: Monet,
Cassatt joins the
Renoir, Degas, Cézanne,
1863 Salon des Refusés Impressionists
and Morisot
Manet’s Déjeuner sur Gauguin exhibits a
1876 Renoir paints The Ball at
l’Herbecauses a scandal sculpture
the Moulin de la Galette
1866 Mary Cassatt moves to Thomas A. Edison perfects
Second Impressionist
Paris (at age 22) the electric lightbulb
Exhibition
1867 Japanese art exhibited for 1880 Fifth Impressionist
Alexander Graham Bell
the first time in the West; Exhibition
invents the telephone
influences the work of
Monet and Renoir do not
Monet, Cassatt, Degas, and
exhibit; instead they show
many other artists who will
work at the Salon
be called Impressionists
Gauguin exhibits paintings
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1881 Sixth Impressionist 1887 Gottlieb Daimler builds the 1914 World War I begins—
Exhibition first automobile Germany invades France
Monet and Renoir do not 1888 George Eastman invents 1917 Edgar Degas dies (age 83)
exhibit first hand-held snapshot
1918 Monet proposes to create
camera
1882 Seventh Impressionist water lily murals as gift to
Exhibition 1889 Eiffel Tower built in Paris France in honor of WWI
victory
Cassatt and Degas do 1891 Gauguin moves to Tahiti
not exhibit 1919 Pierre August Renoir dies
Georges Seurat dies (age
(age 78)
Panama Canal construction 31)
begins (completed in 1914) 1926 Claude Monet dies (age 86)
1903 Paul Gauguin dies (age 54)
1883 Monet moves to Giverny Mary Cassatt dies (age 82)
Wright brothers make their
Gauguin becomes a full-time first successful airplane 1990 The Ball at the Moulin de la
artist flight Galetteby Renoir sells for
$78.1 million
1885 The Statue of Liberty sails 1904 Mary Cassatt receives the
from France to America French Legion of Honor
medal
1886 Eighth (and last)
Impressionist Exhibition 1906 Paul Cézanne dies (age 67)
Seurat exhibits pointillist
style
Monet and Renoir do not
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exhibit