Artist Study & Art Appreciation: Van Gogh

For the next 12 weeks, our composer study and music appreciation will focus on Vincent Van Gogh.



For Picture Study we will spend 2 weeks on each of the following pieces:

• Starry Night
• Starry Night Over the Rhone
• Bank of the Oise at Auvers
• Girl in the Woods
• Water Mill at Kollen Near Nuenen
• View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic

 For those unfamiliar, Picture Study is simple.Have the child(ren) look at one of the paintings/prints silently for 5 minutes.  Remove the picture from view and have the child(ren) tell you about the picture... what they saw, what they felt, what colors were there.. just whatever comes to their minds. This is done 3x per week.

We will be using the following resources.

Books:
Camille and the Sunflowers
Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
Katie and the Sunflowers (Orchard Picturebooks)


Internet Resources:
The Van Gogh Gallery
Van Gogh and Gauguin

Printables and Activities:
A Starry Night Coloring Page

Van Gogh Coloring Pages
KinderArt - Starry Night
KinderArt - Vincent's Flowers
KinderArt - Sunflowers
Mystery Art-Starry Night--Notebooking page
Van Gogh Lapbooking Booklets


  

Here is "Vincent" by Don McLean:

How about you? Which artist are you studying in your homeschool?  What resources are you using? Please leave comments.

Happy Homeschooling!