Tuesday, November 24, 2009

An artist study-Mary Cassatt



For art this year, we are learning about different artists. Each month I choose an artist to study. We read books about the artist and study works of art and the time period that the artist created their paintings. This month we studied about Mary Cassatt. She is an Impressionist painter born in the U.S. but spent most of her life in Paris. I found it interesting that she loved to paint mothers with their children, yet she never married, nor had children of her own.
After our study is over at the end of the month the boys can choose a painting we've studied and copy it. They loved the painting above called "Jules being dried by his Mother" painted in 1900.
Here are the boys renditions:

Matthew:


Nicholas:

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