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Impressionism Light and Color -First Grade

The first graders began a unit in art on light and color to reinforce the concepts that they are going to learn in science. They observed impressionistic work by Claude Monet and other famous impressionists. They learned that the Impressionists were interested in the effects light had on color. Many of them painted outdoors so that as the sun’s light changed so did their colors in their paintings. Monet studied haystacks at different times of the day and different seasons. We noticed the changes in color. We studied the sky outside the art room at different times of the day on different days. Take a look at the art room sky at different times of the day. The first graders used short brush strokes to create repetition and texture in their own compositions and blended their colors in a new way.