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Harmony Fine Arts

Art and Music Appreciation

Level 1—Overview Year

Appropriate for Ages 4-8

Compiled by Barbara McCoy

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Artists

Pierre Renoir (Ren-wah)

Edouard Manet (Man-ay)

Mary Cassatt (ca-Saht)

Paul Cezanne (say-Zahn)

Vincent Van Gogh (van-Go)

Edgar Degas (duh-Gah)

Paul Klee

Camille Pissarro (pe-Sah-ro)

Composers

Antonio Vivaldi

Johann S. Bach

Wolfgang A. Mozart

Ludwig von Beethoven

Frederic Chopin (sho-Pan)

Franz Schubert

Johannes Brahms

Peter Tchaikovsky (chi-Koff-ski)

Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 1

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Option 1 Weekly Picture

Study

Option 2 Art Appreciation with Follow-Up

Activities Using the Oxford First Book of Art

Option 3 Additional Art Appreciation

with Follow-Up Coloring Pages

Week

A Girl With a Watering Can,

1876

Read: Pages 8-9-Mother and Child.

Ask: Look Closer Questions, page 9.

Activity : Page 9 –Create a bath picture.

Picture Study: Camille Monet and Her Son Jean in

the Garden at Argenteuil, 1874. Compare this mother

and child painting with the ones in the book.

View: Child-Size Masterpieces, Step 1,

Level 1

Use the twelve cards marked Step 1, Level

1 to match the identical pairs.

Memorize the title to the painting, A Girl

With a Watering Can by Renoir.

Color: Impressionist Art Masterpieces to

Color: Page 42. A Girl With a Watering

Can

1

Children by the Sea in

Guernsey, 1883

Read: Pages 10-11—Faces

Ask: Look Closer Questions, page 10

Activity: Page 11—Create a shape drawing.

Picture Study: Julie Manet with a Cat, 1887. How

does the face show what the girl is feeling?

View: By The Seashore, 1883

Color: Impressionist Art Masterpieces to

Color: Page 43. By the Seashore

2

On the Terrace, 1881

[Image Index]

Read: Pages 12-13.—Figures

Ask: Look Closer Questions, page 12.

Activity: Page 13 Create clay people.

Picture Study: Pink and Blue, 1881. How would you

describe these figures?

View: Girls at the Piano, 1892

Color: Impressionist Art Masterpieces to

Color: Page 44. Girls at the Piano

3

Luncheon of the Boating

Party, 1881

Read: Pages 14-15—Moving Figures.

Ask: Look Closer Questions, page 14.

Activity: Page 15—Create a line drawing.

Picture Study: Riding in the Bois de Boulogne, 1873.

How does Renoir show that the horses are moving?

View: At the Concert, 1880

Color: Color Your Own Impressionist

Paintings: Page 28 At the Concert

4

Extra

Bonus

View: By The Seashore, 1883

View: Girls at the Piano, 1892

View: Still Life With Bouquet, 1871.

Color: Color Your Own Impressionist

Paintings: Page 26 Still Life With Bouquet

Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 1

Weeks 1-4 Pierre Auguste Renoir 1841-1919

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Week Composer Study:

1 Lives of the Musicians, pages 10-13.

Listen to any Vivaldi music you have on hand or online.

Suggested Listening: Vivaldi Four Seasons

Spring (La primavera)

2 Listen to any Vivaldi music you have on hand or online.

Suggested Listening: Vivaldi Four Seasons

Summer (L’estate)

3 Listen to any Vivaldi music you have on hand or online.

Suggested Listening: Vivaldi Four Seasons

Autumn (L’autumno)

4 Listen to any Vivaldi music you have on hand or online.

Suggested Listening: Vivaldi Four Seasons

(L’inverno)

Harmony Fine Arts—Grade 1

Weeks 1-4 Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741

Music Links: All of the YouTube links can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5CB39011B408A392

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On the Terrace, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Art Institute of Chicago.

Oil on canvas.