Teaching Activity: Art History Project

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Van Gogh admired a wide group of artists from Europe and Japan. He learned about them through his early employment for an art dealer, his travels, his studio classes in Paris, and his brother Theo. Divide the class into small groups to research the artists listed below and prepare papers about each of them. Have the students create a miniature art exhibition, using postcards and color reproductions to illustrate the visual examples that inspired Van Gogh.

Jean-François Millet, French (1814-1875)

Jules Breton, French (1827-1906)

Léon Lhermitte, French (1844-1925)

Camille Corot, French (1796-1875)

Camille Pissarro, French (1830-1903)

Charles Daubigny, French (1817-1878)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French (1824-1898)

Adolphe William Bouguereau, French (1825-1905)

Emile Bernard, French (1868-1941)

Paul Gauguin, French (1848-1903)

Georges Seurat, French (1859-1891)

Paul Signac, French (1863-1935)

Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch (1606-1669)

Johannes Vermeer, Dutch (1632-1675)

Ando Hiroshige, Japanese (1797-1858)

Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese (1760-1849)

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