1. 2nd Grade - Unit 1
A season for chapters

2. What are the four seasons? Can you name them?

3. What seasons are shown in the artworks below
What seasons are shown in the artworks below? (summer, spring, fall, winter?)
What types of techniques were used? (canvas, medal, silk, glass, rock?)
Louis Comfort Tiffany, Dogwood ( )
Vincent van Gogh, Mulberry Tree(1889)
Artist unknown, Snow-Laden Plum Branches ( )

4. How do you think he created this painting?
Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
What colors did he use?
What shapes do you see?
How do you think he created this painting?

5. Cool colors: Greens, blues and purples
Warm colors: Reds, oranges and yellows
Pointillism: Painting using tiny dots of various pure colors, which become blended in the viewer's eye.

6. Pointillism Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Pointillism required so much patience. George Seurat most famous piece, took two years!
Seurat made over 3 million dots on this piece!
3,456,000
dots one at a time!
Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
by Georges Seurat

7. Let’s create our pointillism