Impressionism

During our first week of February we learned about Impressionist art. We read a book about artists like Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Degas, Cassatt and Van Gogh. We learned how they used broad brush-strokes, varied textures of paint and modern themes to create the impression of something, rather than a realistic image of the subject. Since this was also our week on Kangaroos, we read a book called “Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing”. So, our most contemporary experience was the idea of animals getting all tangled up or inconvenienced by their clothing. This birthed the concept for our art project. We decided to do a painting of an animal having some difficulty with an item of clothing, and to paint it in an Impressionist style. Ardara painted a monkey trying to wear overalls, but the strap was caught on a branch, so he couldn’t swing free. Huyler painted a bunny trying to get into a shirt (in the lower right). All the swipes and slashes across the page show the struggle this little bunny has had getting into a blouse that is much too big.