Monet and the Impressionists for Kids: Their Lives and Ideas, 21 Activities

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Cover; Contents v; Acknowledgments vii; Time Line viii; Introduction xi; A New Way of Looking at the World 3; Art-to-Go Knapsack 19; Take a Visual Voyage 20; Claude Monet 23; Painting the Shimmering Sky 26; Painting Reflections 30; Monet's Garden 35; Mini Haystack and Field 40; Paper Water Lily 43; Pierre Auguste Renoir 45; How to Draw a Face 50; Galette des Rois (Twelfth Night Cake) 57; Edgar Degas 59; Camera Capers 68; Mary Cassatt 71; Every Picture Tells a Story 76; Paul Cezanne 85; Still Life a la Cezanne 90; Stenciling Cezanne 97; Paul Gauguin 99; Cup of Gauguin 107.;Monet and the Impressionists for Kids invites children to delight in Cassatt's mothers and children, Renoir's dancing couples, and Gaugin's island scenes; 21 activities explore Monet's quick shimmering brush strokes, Cezanne's brilliant rectangles of color, Seurat's pointillism, and Degas's sculpture-like circles of dancers.