Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh

• 1853 to 1890

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Vincent van Gogh

• He was a
• Preacher
• Bookseller
• School Teacher
• Art Dealer
• Started painting when he was 27

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Vincent van Gogh
This is a picture from Holland

• He first lived in Holland
• His first paintings were very dark and sad
• He did not sell a lot at first
• When he moved to the south of France he painted
  with vivid and brighter colors
• It was sunnier and brighter there and it
  influenced his artwork

This is a picture from the South of France
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Vocabulary

• Post Impressionism
• A style of art that is based on emotion
• Uses vivid colors
• Paint is applied to the canvas as thick blobs
  with distinctive brush strokes
• The subject matter is real-life

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Vocabulary
This is a Color Wheel. How many colors do you see?

• Texture
• The quality of a surface or the way any work of
  art is represented.
• Color
• It is defined as the use of hue in artwork
• Red, Green, Blue
• Still Life
• A painting or drawing of an arrangement of
  inanimate objects.
• Books, Flowers, Bottles, Fruit, etc

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Starry Night
Can you see any texture in this painting? What
colors do you see?
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Sunflowers
This is an example of post impressionism. What
colors do you see? Do you think the flowers are
sad or happy?
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Todays Lesson

• You will create your own textured sunflower
  today!
• Cut out the sunflower petals
• Curl the ends with a pencil to give the petals
  more texture
• Draw the stems and leaves in green on the blue
  paper with the vase
• Arrange the petals in a circular pattern to
  resemble flower petals and glue to the sheet
• Color in the vase use any colors try to make a
  textured pattern on the vase

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Todays Lesson

• After you have finished the vase you will get a
  brown circle to glue in the center of the flower
• Glue sunflower seeds to the brown circle
• Sign and date the front of your artwork!!!
• This is VERY IMPORTANT DO NOT FORGET TO DO THIS
  STEP!!!