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Article: Experiencing van Gogh.(Vincent Van Gogh)
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- Arts & Activities
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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It's amazing how naturally the vibrant energy of children can be incorporated into their artwork. I needed a fairly short lesson to work in between a larger unit that was approaching. When speaking with a high-school art teacher friend of mine, she told me of a project her students were working on that focused on the expressive brush strokes in van Gogh's work. Since the strokes need to be visible, I thought of altering the project to a crayon resist, a method third-grade students could manage better with limited motor skills.
We began by discussing the life and work of Vincent van Gogh. How his art reflected his feelings, and how emotion and intensity are an ...