A is for Apple, A is for Art, Grades K-1
This highly interactive twenty-five minute lesson introduces kindergartners to three celebrated artists: Renoir, Picasso and Matisse. Using colorful paintings from the CMAs permanent collection, students find apples or other fruit in each painting. They then discover how artists use a variety of colors to convey the apples appearance. After examining a real apple under different lighting conditions students begin to see how light affects the apples form. A post-videoconference activity of drawing apples using highlights and shadows offers students a rewarding classroom exhibition of their own artwork.
Pictures courtesy of teachers Carla Roberson, Gina Buffington, Misty Morrison, and Kristina Uhrik of Richardson, Texas who helped write the program.
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Still Life with Biscuits, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973) 1924
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The Apple Seller, Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841 - 1919) c. 1890
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