The Impressionists Impression

What is Impressionism?

Impressionism is an art movement founded in France in the last third of the 19th century. Impressionist artists sought to break up light into its component colors and render its ephemeral play on various objects. The artist's vision was intensely centered on light and the ways it transforms the visible world. This style of painting is characterized by short brush strokes of bright colors used to recreate visual impressions of the subject and to capture the light, climate and atmosphere of the subject at a specific moment in time. The chosen colors represent light which is broken down into its spectrum components and recombined by the eyes into another color when viewed at a distance (an optical mixture). The term was first used in 1874 by a journalist ridiculing a landscape by Monet called Impression - Sunrise.

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French Artists - PowerPoint Presentation

Due: April 8, 2008

French Artist: Speak about artist’s life; note important events that influenced his/her work

Artwork: Analyze one painting using the format we used for the Ingres: Napoleon painting

Include 5-6 other images: the artist, other works, favorite subjects; favorite sites

Project Expectations:

	After researching and developing your PowerPoint presentation, prepare an assessment about your artist for students to complete. Examples include: quiz (you can put on the last slide of your presentation); jeopardy game; crossword puzzle; word search (puzzlemaker.com); bingo; team game; etc.
	Create a hatbox/Kleenex box project: decorate the box with art of the artist or your own artwork in the artist’s style. Put 5 (five) things in the box that represent important events, etc. in the artists’ life.

Example: for Pablo Picasso; something that represents his native country of Spain (i.e.bull); a drawing of his favorite shirt- blue and white striped maillot; guitar; journal; piece of fruit

	Use the rubrics below to guide you in your slide design, research and presentation skills.
	You should have 6-8 slides with your web site sources on your last slide, or on each slide. You just need to put the actual website—examples: CDC.org,
	Use .edu, .org, and .gov web sites. If using .com ask to make sure it is credible.
	Make sure you do thorough and complete research. Presentation should be comprehensive, interesting and informative. No longer than 5 minutes, no shorter than 2 minutes.
	Hand in your rubric before you present. This will be used to assess your presentation.

Artist Rubrics

PowerPoint slides Points Points earned

Creative first slide-attention grabber…………………………………………5

Slides are organized and easy to read:
Headings stand out, slides are not overly wordy, use of bullets,
Information flows and follows sequence and order…………..………........... 5

Slides are creative (color, style and/or animation)………………………….....5

Font size is readable- font size should be large enough for audience to read (30 +)

Research the following information:                              Points    Points earned

Biography; Possible historical, cultural events that influenced artist………10

Characteristics of the artist’s style………………………………………10


Hat box/ kleenex box project.................................................………….10

Analysis of one painting …………………………………………….….10

Images of artist’s other works………………………………………… 10

Visual Presentation                                                Points    Points earned

Voice projection……………………………………………………….…5

Articulation/accent………………………………………………………..5

Eye Contact……………………………………………………………...5

Interaction with the audience-ask a question or two………………………5

Appeared knowledgeable of the topic……………………………………10

Appeared interested in the topic…………………………………………10

French grammar, structure ………………………………………………10

Total points 100 points/ Earned Points ________

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The Impressionists Impression - Sunrise by Claude Monet

The Impressionists

Impression - Sunrise by Claude Monet