ART WORKBOOK 1

During the last term we have learned about several artists.

Can you remember their names?

Write them here:

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Which artist created the ‘nanas’?

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Which artist used dots to create paintings?

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Who painted ‘The Sunflowers’?

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Which female artist painted monkeys and parrots in her self portraits?

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What is a triptych?

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What is Pointillism?

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ANSWERS:

During the last term we have learned about several artists.

Can you remember their names?

Write them here:

Picasso

Frida Kahlo

Vincent Van Gogh

Georges Seurat

Niki De Saint Phalle

Which artist created the ‘nanas’?

Niki De Saint Phalle

Which artist used dots to create paintings?

Georges Seurat

Who painted ‘The Sunflowers’?

Vincent Van Gogh

Which female artist painted monkeys and parrots in her self portraits?

Frida Kahlo

What is a triptych?

A triptych is a paintinhg made from three panels.

What is Pointillism?

Pointillism is an art movement. Pictures were made from many dots.

Colouring activity. Frida Kahlo.

Look carefully at the Picasso painting below.

This painting by Picasso is called ‘The Weeping Woman.’

Describe the picture. What do you think of this painting?

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Use these adjectives to help you. Use a dictionary to find the meanings. beautiful impressive disturbing grotesque distorted angular colourful sad

Colour in the picture of ‘The Weeping Woman.’

Who was Pablo Picasso?

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Málaga in the Andalusian region of Spain.  His father was a painter who specialized in painting birds. He was also a professor of art at the School of Crafts. Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting.

When Picasso was only sixteen his father and uncle decided to send him to Madrid to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. This art school was the most renowned art school in the country. However, Picasso disliked formal instruction and quickly stopped attending classes. He decided to create his own individual type of art, which was later called cubism.

Picasso began to paint in a new way. He wanted to show three-dimensional characteristics on a flat canvas. In order to achieve that he broke up the subject into many different shapes and then repainted it from different angles. Picasso painted The Young Ladies of Avignon in 1907. It was the first Cubist painting.

Picasso’s technique of painting became popular, thus other artists such as Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes started to paint in his style.

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READING COMPREHENSION

Some questions contain multiple correct answers

1. What was this article about? It was about …

1. cubism

1. Picasso’s life

1. The Young Ladies of Avignon

1. In paragraph 1 - What does who refer to?

1. Picasso

1. Picasso’s father

1. Málaga

1. What city was Picasso born in?

1. in Andalusia

1. in Malaga

1. in Madrid

1. What was the profession of Picasso’s father?

1. He was an artist

1. He was a teacher

1. He was a designer

1. Why did Picasso’s father send him to Madrid?

1. to teach students at art school

1. to study at the art school

1. to work at the university

1. At what age did Picasso moved to Madrid?

a) Seventeen

b) Sixteen

c) Seven

1. What kind of student was Picasso?

1. a very keen student

1. a student who he disliked school

1. a bad student

1. it doesn’t say

1. What was the name of the first cubist paining?

1. The Young Ladies of Madrid

1. The Young Ladies of Andalusia

1. The Young Ladies of Avignon

1. Why did Picasso leave school?

1. to create his own type of art

1. to work at a different city

1. it doesn’t say

1. What is the name of another artist who painted in Picasso’s style?

1. Monet

1. Ruzi

1. Braque

1. What was the purpose of Picasso’s art?

1. to show 3d qualities of a subject

1. to be provocative

1. It doesn’t say

How many did you get correct?

Write the number of correct answers here. ………………………

Meet Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands in 1853. Van Gogh was Dutch. He started to work when he was 15.Van Gogh tried a lot of jobs. He worked as an art dealer, a teacher, a bookseller before he became an artist.

Van Gogh painted over 200 pictures in the hospital, including “Starry Night”. His painting, “Starry Night” became very famous but he didn't think it was a good painting. A year earlier he had painted another starry sky picture, “Starry Night Over the Rhone”. Today “Starry Night”, is one of Van Gogh's most famous paintings.

Van Gogh had one brother. His name was Theo. Theo was an art dealer in Paris. He tried to help Van Gogh to sell his paintings but Van Gogh's paintings were darker than the art that was popular in Paris at the time. People didn't understand his art and they didn't buy his pictures. Van Gogh had no money, no food, and no friends.

In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris. In Paris van Gogh met many famous painters. Paul Gauguin was one of them. Gauguin was a French painter. Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin became friends and started to live together. They lived in the Yellow House in the southern France for two months One day Gauguin left and Van Gogh was very angry, so he cut off his own ear. Van Gogh was mentally ill and was in the hospital for a long time.

His life ended sadly in 1890. He died at the age of 37. Van Gogh killed himself. He sold only one painting in his life. He died as a poor, lonely artist. Now, 100 years later his paintings cost millions of dollars.

Today people around the world can see his paintings in the museums. The biggest Van Gogh Museum is in Holland, the country where Van Gogh was born.

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1. Van Gogh’s brother.

2. The “ _________ ___________” is one of his most famous paintings.

3. He was born in __________

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4. Van Gogh was mentally _________.

5. He painted over 200 painting in the __________________.

6. Gaugin is a French ______________.