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Students in grade 1 and 2 are introduced to practical components which include learning primary colours, the elements
of design and investigation two and three dimensional works of art.
Featured Artists: Paul Gaugiun
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| Women with a Flower, 1891 |
Paul Gaugain
Paul Gauguin was born June 7, 1848 in Paris, France and died May 8, 1903 in Atuona Hiva Oa of the Marquesas Islands in French
Polynesia. Gauguin is one of the leading French painters of the Postimpressionist
period. The son of a French journalist and a Peruvian Creole, whose mother had been a writer and a follower of Saint-Simon,
he was brought up in Lima, joined the merchant navy in 1865, and in 1872 began a successful career as a stockbroker in Paris.
n 1874 he saw the first Impressionist exhibition, which completely entranced him and confirmed his desire to become a painter.
He spent some 17,000 francs on works by Manet, Monet, Pissarro and Renoir. Gauguin
organized in 1891 to finance his projected excursion to places where he could live on `ecstasy, calmness and art' and moved
to French Polynesia. This picture, also known as Two women on the beach, was
painted in 1891, shortly after Gauguin's arrival in Tahiti. During his first stay there (he
was to leave in 1893, only to return in 1895 and remain until his death), Gauguin discovered primitive art, with its flat
forms and the violent colors belonging to an untamed nature.
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| Femmes de Tahiti Sur la plage (Tahitian Women On the Beach) 1890 |
Gauguin's subject matter and use of colour would provide great visual examples for practicing critical thinking skills
with students. Students could explore the link between colours and emotion, colour and symbolism, the importance of
subject matter, as well as the symbolic representation of culture. Other subjects in relationship to Gauguin to explore would
include Impressionism and Primitive Art.
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| Totem Walk, Sitka, watercolor, 1907 |
Other Artist to look at...
Emily Carr
Was a Canadian painter, writer
born in born in 1871 in Victoria, British Columbia. She studied art in San Francisco, England,
and France before returning to Victoria.
Carr spent her summers as youth on Queen Charlotte
Island which brought her into contact with the subject matter of Native
culture and coastal landscapes that would bring her recognition in later life. She
was strongly influenced by impressionism, Fauvism, and cubism, but portrayed nature in a powerful style of her own.
Henry Moore
Henry Moore was an English sculptor born
in 1898.
Moore's early sculpture was angular and rough, strongly influenced
by pre-Columbian art. About 1928 he evolved a more personal style which has gained him an international reputation. His works,
in wood, stone, and cement (done without clay models), are characterized by their smooth, organic shape and often include
empty hollows, which he showed to have as meaningful a shape as solid mass.
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| Two Large Forms, 1966-69 |
This site is built in accordance with the expectations outlined in The Ontario Curriculum. The objective is to serve as a
resource for students and teachers to confront the integration of art history into arts education program
 
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