Fine Art Class #5 ~ Edgar Degas (Body Movement)
What small-minded girl doesn't want to look at art of ballet dancers?? The girls were all jumping up and down about doing this instruction. We started the lesson off with a little bit of out of the public eye about Edgar Degas and his life in France, and his travels. Degas was also the first artist we have feigned where we focused a bit on the mediums he used. He was born and lived most of his lifestyle in France, and loved drawing, painting, sculpting, and many other types of art. We talked about what 'road' meant in art (a supply to make art) and the kids all named off unlike mediums they have used; crayons, booze it up, clay, glue, and even pine cones were mentioned. I didn't fit any of it. They are all mediums. :)
Then we read the book Degas and the Petite Dancer. This book made me cry. It did the first time I be familiar with it to Cyan too. It is bittersweet, but very real and talks about Degas customary blind at the end of his life and a little dancer who has a dream that never comes faithful the way she wants... but how Degas uses her as a model for his most pre-eminent sculpture and so she becomes the most famous dancer in the exactly. Again, this led back to art mediums... in this sculpture this clay person is wearing intrinsic ballet shoes and a real ballet decorate complete with tutu. The kids kindliness this was fascinating (and it reinforced that pine cones were an art approach. lol!).
The Little Dancer Fourteen Years Old by Edgar Degas
Then we started talking about propriety. Now most of these kids are 7 and 8, so I didn't go into a lot... but we did talk about the enduring...
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