From His Treasuries - Art Appreciation ~ 'The Vase with Sunflowers'

Dec. 5, 2008 - Art Appreciation ~ 'The Vase with Sunflowers'

The Vase With Sunflowers, 1888, Vincent Van Gogh

Some of the kids' thoughts:

very detailed technique with his brush strokes ( difficult to tell in this pic, but if you go to a site you can zoom into it, you can see it )
drab, mellow colors
the flowers are dead ~ Van Gogh must have been upset or sad when he painted it
it doesnt bring a sense of cherriness to the viewer

This time, instead of recreating it from scratch, I found this, a print out coloring page of it -- my son colored his, the girls and I water colored.

Jayda

Kaden

Mom

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Dec. 5, 2008 - As usual

Posted by ThreeLittleLadies

I love your lovely posts. You do what I only wish we could get done! (and you blog about it!)

Carol

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Dec. 6, 2008 - I love your drawings!

Posted by chris36

Wow! I am amazed by how well you guys did. So good! I would love to start doing picture study, but never seem to have enough time to get everything in. I'm going to have to see how we can add it after Christmas.

We would all love to turn the sand into snow if we could. We miss it a lot!!

Did you enjoy your pizza? Yummmm!

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Dec. 6, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Keri

All of your artwork is beautiful!

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Posted by Fiffi

Great work! I love most of Van Gogh's art! I think his use of colours does it for he! He is not afraid to break the rules!!!

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Dec. 6, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by melissal89

Beautiful works of art!

Just in case you hadn't found it yet, this is a great site for Van Gogh:
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

Blessings, Melissa

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Dec. 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Christin

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Dec. 7, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by OldSchoolMarm

During our Art unit, we only briefly touched on Van Gogh, we did discuss that he was a very troubled artist and many times his art reflects that. My oldest, who is very sensitive, thought that it was so sad that anyone could ever end their life as he did. I found myself wonderring if maybe I should not have introduced the whole idea of "suicide" to her as she is so young (9) and she had never really even been introduced to the concept of someone being so sad that they would take their own life. How did your kids take it? Did they ask many questions? Just curious.

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Dec. 11, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Aimee

lovely representations!

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