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Title - What's Your Impression?
By - Randi Lynn Mrvos
Primary Subject - Art
Secondary Subjects -
Grade Level - 2-6
Title - What's Your Impression?
By - Randi Lynn Mrvos
Primary Subject - Art
Secondary Subjects -
Grade Level - 2-6
Objective: To learn about and experience impressionism
Time: Approximately 2-3 hours.
Vocabulary: Impression, sur le motif, plein air

Supplies: Paper for painting
Watercolor paints
Clipboard
Paint brush
Jar with lid for water

Anticipatory Set:
Read Linnea in Monet's Garden, by Christina Bjork

Show the class reproductions of Monet's paintings: "Impression: Sunrise", 1873; "Across the Meadow", 1879; "Monet's Garden at Giveney, Irises", 1900, "Waterlilies", 1905; "Poppies near Argenteuill", 1873.

Introduction:
Impressionism is a style of painting characterized by an artist's abstract interpretation of objects or scenes. Unmixed primary colors and small brush strokes are used to simulate actual reflected light. The word "impressionism" was used for the first time in the French magazine, Charivari on April 25, 1874. Art critic Louis Leroy was shocked by Monet's new artist style, which broke away from traditional, realistic painting. Leroy thought his work looked like blobs of paint that barely suggested reality. Unwittingly, Leroy named the most important artistic phenomenon of the nineteenth century after Monet's painting, "Impression: Sunrise".

Influenced by Eugene Boudin, a seascape artist who practiced painting outside (plein air), Monet abandoned his art studio and painted on location (sur le motif). He achieved a fresh impression of nature by capturing transient light and color. His brush strokes were simple and unblended on the canvas, which created a shimmering sensation of light.

Instructions:
Take students outside to a garden, a courtyard, to a park or arboretum. Ask them to paint their impressions of the landscape.

Closure:
Discuss what it might have been felt like to have been an impressionist painter. What influenced their work--- wind, temperature, the season, amount of light, the view? Have the students title their pictures "Impression:_______" (fill in the blank) and write it on the back. Hang the pictures on the board. Ask the students to guess the titles.
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