Impressionism

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Impressionism

• Discovering Links Between the Arts

Michael Archer Gwen Keohane Laura Laude Emily
Paolini Alex Reid
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What is an Impression?
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• An effect, feeling, or image retained as a
  consequence of experience
• A vague notion, remembrance, or belief

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Community of Learners

• High School General Music Course
• Previous Exploratory Courses
• Art, Music, Dance
• English Courses
• Poetry, Narrative, etc.
• Preconceptions of Learners?

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Curriculum Objectives

• Impressionism as a Subject of Cross-Curricular
  Study
• Evaluating Impressionism as an important movement
  in History
• Connections to features in the arts and music of
  today
• Using Impressionism to foster creativity and
  higher order thinking skills

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Revised Blooms Taxonomy
• Lorin Anderson, 1990
• Remembering
• Understanding
• Applying
• Analyzing
• Evaluating
• Creating

Mary Cassatt, Children Playing On the Beach, Oil
On Canvas 1884
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Blooms Taxonomy

• Remembering names, facts, and dates
• Understanding History in context, how the art
  movement used characteristics of Impressionistic
  ideals
• Applying Take what they know about Impressionism
  in art and utilize that with music of the period.
  
• Analyzing How one piece compares to another,
  what kind of effect artist is trying to create
• Evaluating How a piece makes them feel, what
  images or moods are created
• Creating Watercolor, short poem or dialogue,
  dance, musical piece

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Multiple Intelligences Learning Styles

• Multi-Disciplinary Study
• Social Constructivist and Direct Instruction
• Lecture and Group Work Connecting the Curriculum
  to Everyday Experiences
• Varied Media and Teaching Strategies

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Multiple IntelligencesLearning Styles

• Introductory Lesson
• Intrapersonal, Interpersonal Intelligences
• Visual and Auditory Learners
• Visual Art Lesson
• Kinesthetic, Spatial, Musical, Interpersonal
  Intelligences
• Visual and Tactile Learners
• Literature Lesson
• Linguistic, Musical, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal
  Intelligences
• Visual/Verbal Learners
• Dance Lesson
• Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Musical, Spatial,
  Interpersonal Intelligences
• Visual and Tactile Learners
• Music Lesson
• Musical, Linguistic, Intrapersonal, Interpersonal
  Intelligences
• Auditory Learners

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Motivation

• Social Constructivism
• Topics that Connect with Students Interests
• The Hook Ink Blots
• Fostering Creativity, Interaction with Peers
• Sharing their Own Personal Feelings
• Viewing The Arts as a Whole

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Assessment

• Comprehension of Material
• Daily Assignments
• Applying the Concepts of Impressionism to
  Class-work
• Concept Mastery vs. Quality of Creation
• Final Project

Eduoard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, Oil On
Canvas 1863
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Lesson I Introduction

• Lecture Overview of Impressionism
• What is Impressionism?
• Louis Leroy
• Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise
• How is Impressionism linked to Human Emotion?
• Key Concepts
• Instructional Objectives

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Lesson II Visual Art

• Lecture (Brief)
• Historical Timeline of Impressionism in Art
• Styles and Techniques of Painting
• Discussion of Paintings
• Lecture Notes, Power Point Slides, Walls!
• Create Your Own!
• Instructional Objectives

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Watercolor by Sage B., Conwego Valley
Intermediate School, 5th Grade
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Lesson III Literature

• Icebreaker Activity
• How does the music make you feel?
• Lecture
• Concepts of Symbolism
• Poetry Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
• Maeterlink, Pelleas et Melisande
• Create Your Own!
• Instructional Objectives

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Lesson V Dance

• Opening Discussion Modern Dances
• Lecture Dance of the Impressionism Era
• Pictures of Dancers in Motion
• Video Dancers in Action
• Discussion Concept Mastery
• Group Work and Presentation
• Instructional Objectives

Edgar Degas, Little Fourteen Year Old Dancer,
Bronze and Fabric 1880-81
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Lesson IV Music
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman Playing a Guitar,
Oil On Canvas 1896-97
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Impressionism In Music

• Surfaced in France
• Composers felt possibilities had been exhausted
• Explored exotic rhythms, scales, and colors
• Contrasts traditional sounds of western music

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Characteristics

• Tone combinations
• Chromaticism, Whole-Tone Scale
• Parallel motion primary intervals
• Ninth chords
• Orchestral color
• Rhythm
• Small forms

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Composers

• Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
• Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
• Frederick Delius (1862-1934)
• Charles Griffes (1884-1920)

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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

• Most important composer of early 20th Century
• Considered art to be a sensuous experience, like
  other painters and writers
• Romanticism did not work for him
• Turned against traditional form art of
  indirection
• Subtle and discreet
• Expressed in short, flexible forms
• Mood pieces
• Images of Impressionistic painting

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Debussys Famous Works

• Pelléas and Mélisande
• Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun
• Three Nocturnes
• Clouds, Festivals, Sirens
• La Mer (the sea)
• Claire de lune

Claude Debussy
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Listening Activity

• Claude Debussy, The Sunken Cathedral

As you are listening, write down the impression
that is left on you by the music. Use descriptive
words such as colors, emotions, people, objects,
animals, etc.
Claude Monet, Rouen Cathedral Series, Oil On
Canvas 1894