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Found on http://picamericakids.edublogs.org/2010/02/26/the-boating-party/
1. Find the boat’s sail, the distant buildings, and the man’s shoe.
2. Where are the horizontal lines in this painting?
3. What is the center of interest in this painting?
4. Do you think the baby is enjoying this boat ride?
5. What do you like most about the painting?
1. Find the boat’s sail, the distant buildings, and the man’s shoe.
2. Where are the horizontal lines in this painting?
3. What is the center of interest in this painting?
4. Do you think the baby is enjoying this boat ride?
5. What do you like most about the painting?
Info on the painter:
Mary Cassatt was born in Pennsylvania in 1844. She was the fourth child of the five children born to the family. When she was seven her family moved to Europe. They wanted their children to understand European ways and the people who lived there. They traveled a lot and she had visited many countries by the time she was 10 years old. After four years they returned to America.
In those days, women did not have professions, and there were very few women artists. Her family did not approve when she decided that she would become an artist.
She studied first in Philadelphia. She happened to be in Chicago in 1871 when the huge fire broke out. She lost many of her paintings in that fire.
She went to Paris to study painting. Her mother traveled with her to Paris and then she returned home and left Mary there to study. She met Camille Pissarro. He taught her Impressionism, a method of painting where the artists used small strokes of unmixed colors to create an image. She once said of Pissarro that "he could have taught stones to draw correctly" because he was such a good teacher. She spent a lot of time at the Louvre Museum copying paintings of the famous artists.
Mary Cassatt was born in Pennsylvania in 1844. She was the fourth child of the five children born to the family. When she was seven her family moved to Europe. They wanted their children to understand European ways and the people who lived there. They traveled a lot and she had visited many countries by the time she was 10 years old. After four years they returned to America.
In those days, women did not have professions, and there were very few women artists. Her family did not approve when she decided that she would become an artist.
She studied first in Philadelphia. She happened to be in Chicago in 1871 when the huge fire broke out. She lost many of her paintings in that fire.
She went to Paris to study painting. Her mother traveled with her to Paris and then she returned home and left Mary there to study. She met Camille Pissarro. He taught her Impressionism, a method of painting where the artists used small strokes of unmixed colors to create an image. She once said of Pissarro that "he could have taught stones to draw correctly" because he was such a good teacher. She spent a lot of time at the Louvre Museum copying paintings of the famous artists.
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