Monthly prints October – April

Meet the Masters
Art Appreciation and Enrichment Program
Grades Kindergarten - Eighth Grade
Compiled and Written by Jeanine Hill-Soldner c 2002
Meet the Masters
October Program
Grade K:
Shape in Art
Paul Klee - "Head of a Man"
Grade 1:
First Impressions - Color in Art
Vincent Van Gogh - "Farmhouse at Provence"
Claude Monet - "Banks of Seine Vetheuil"
Grade 2:
First Impressions - People on the Waterfront
Pierre Auguste Renoir - "Oarsmen at Chatou"
Mary Cassatt - "The Boating Party"
Grade 3:
First Impressions - Colorful People and Places
Henri Matisse - "Woman With Exotic Plant"
Edouard Manet - "Gare Saint-Lazare"
Grade 4:
First Impressions - Feelings of People in Art
Henri deToulouse - Lautrec - "At the Moulin Rouge"
Pierre Auguste Renoir- "In the Meadow"
Grade 5:
First Impressions - Shape and Color
Henri Matisse - "Still Life: Apples on a Pink Tablecloth"
Paul Cezanne - "Still Life"
Grade 6:
First Impressions - A Moment Frozen in Time
Pierre Auguste Renoir - "Two Sisters"
Edouard Manet - "The Races at Longchamps"
Grade 7:
First Impressions - Effects of Light in Art
Gustave Caillebotte - "Paris Street: Rainy Day"
Camille Pissarro - "Boulevard des Italiens - Morning
Sunlight"
Grade 8:
First Impressions - Color Theory, PointaUism
Georges Seurat - "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La
Grande Jatte"
Claude Monet - "Cliff Walk at Pourville"
Meet the Masters
November Program
Grade K-
People in Art
Norman Rockwell "The Dugout"
Grade 1 -
Art Can Tell a Story
Winslow Homer "Snap the Whip"
Henri Rousseau "Father Juniet's Cart"
Grade 2 -
Shape in Art
Wayne Thiebaud "Cake Window"
Georgia O'Keefe "White Trumpet Flower"
Grade 3 -
Landscapes
Joseph Pickett "Coryell's Ferry, 1776"
George Inness "Lake Nemi"
Grade 4 -
Texture in Art
Vincent van Gogh "Starry Night"
Marc Chagall "Chambon sur Loc"
Grade 5 -
Shape in Art
Victor Vasarely "Tridem K"
Louis Moillet "The Circus"
Grade 6 -
Stories in Art
Walter Ellison "Train Station"
Kicking Bear "Battle of Little Big Horn"
Grade 7 -
Art Can Tell a Story
John Quidor "Rip Van Winkle"
Diego Rivera "Detroit Industry"
Grade 8 -
Storytelling Through Art
Bernardo Martarell "St. George Killing the Dragon"
Raphael "St George and the Dragon"
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Meet the Masters
January Program
Grade K: Cultural Masks
Northwest Coast Indian Mask
Grade 1: Cultural Masks
Kuba Mukenga African Mask
Grade 2:
Cultural Masks
Korean Monkey Mask
Mexican Jaguar Mask
Grade 3: Animals in Art - Horses
W. H. Brown "Bareback Rider"
Charles M. Russell "The Horse Thieves"
Grade 4: Artists Portray People
Pablo Picasso "The Lovers"
Edward Hopper "Cape Cod Evening"
Grade 5: Native American - Stories on Stones
Chumash Rock Painting (c. 650 B. C.)
Grade 6: Transformation: Objects Become Art
H. C. Westerman "Memorial to the Idea of a Man if He was
an Idea"
Grade 7: Artists and Their Self-Portraits
Frida Kahlo "Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and
Hummingbird"
Judith Leyster "Self-Portrait"
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Grade 8: Printmaking: Repeated Images
Mary Cassatt "The Letter"
William H. Johnson "Three Children"
Meet the Masters
February Program
Grade K:
Color in Art
Henri Matisse "Beasts of the Sea"
Grade 1:
Cave Art - The Most Ancient Art
Paleolithic "Chinese Horse" Lascaux, France
Douglas Howcroft Mazonowicz "Two Reindeer"
Grade 2:
How Artists Use Color
Pierre Auguste Renoir "Two Sisters"
Ernest Ludwig Kirchner "Sertig Valley"
Grade 3:
How Artists Portray Women
Mary Cassatt "The Child's Bath"
Leonardo Da Vinci "Ginerva De Benci"
Grade 4:
Seasons in Art - People and Places
George Bellows "Love of Winter"
John Singer Sargent "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale"
Grade 5:
Cityscapes hi Art
John Sloan "The City from Greenwich Village"
Edward Hopper "Nighthawks"
Grade 6:
The Japanese Screen
"Screen of the Southern Barbarians" Momoyama Period
"Cherry Blossoms and Poem Slips" Edo Period
Grade 7:
Figurative Sculpture
Auguste Rodin "The Thinker"
Michelangelo "Pieta"
Grade 8:
Perspective hi Art
Sandro Botticelli "Adoration of the Magi"
Gustave Caillebotte "Paris Street, Rainy Day"
Meet the Masters - March Program
Grade K: Feelings in Art
Vincent van Gogh "Postman Joseph Roulin"
Grade 1:
People in Art
Tsuguharu Foujita "hi the Kitchen"
Gilbert Stuart "The Skater"
Grade 2:
Seasons in Art: Landscapes
Henri Rousseau "Banks of the Oise"
Thomas Chambers "Summer: Fisherman Netting"
Grade 3:
Three Dimensional Art: Sculpture
Tang Dynasty Tomb Sculpture
Henry Moore "Reclining Mother and Child"
Grade 4:
Kinetic Sculpture: Art in Motion
Alexander Calder "Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
Grade 5: Art in a Box: Assemblage
Louise Nevelson "Case With Five Balisters"
Robert Rauschenberg "Trophy II"
Grade 6: Drawing Hands: How Artists Depict Hands
Kathe Kollwitz "Sharpening the Scythe"
Charles White "Harvest Talk"
Grade 7:
Fabric Design: Printing on Cloth
Adire Cloth, Yoruba, Nigeria
Grade 8: Artists Use Their Imaginations
Salvador Dali "The Persistence of Memory"
Georgia O'Keefe "Cow's Skull and Calico Roses"
Meet the Masters
April Program
Grade K:
Art and Children's Games
Pieter Breugel "Children's Games"
Grade 1:
Quilts in Art
Faith Ringgold "Tar Beach"
Grade 2:
Non-Objective Art - Color
Helen Frankenthaler "Alloy"
Mark Rothko "Orange and Tan"
Grade 3:
Cubism - Shape in Art
Georges Braque "Musical Forms"
Pablo Picasso "Still Life"
Grade 4:
Artists and Their lamginations
Renee Margitte "The Empire of the Light"
Wassily Kandinsky "Watercolor Number 13)
Grade 5:
Boats in American Art
Winslow Homer "The Fog Warning"
George Caleb Bingham "Fur Traders Descending the
Missouri"
Grade 6:
Movement in Art
Hokusai "The Great Wave"
Marcel Duchamp "Nude Descending the Staircase"
Grade 7:
Art With a Message
John Baldessari "Letter"
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec "Mouh'n Rouge (la Goulue)
Grade 8:
Pop Art of the 1960's
Andy Warhol "Old Fashioned Vegetable"
Roy Lichtenstein "Whaam"