Edouard Vuillard

Edouard Vuillard Art Literacy Presentation

Objective:

Students will learn about repeating a pattern in art, as Edouard Vuillard did.

Vocabulary:

Patterns, colors, shapes

 Artist Biography: (Display picture #1)

Jean-Edouard Vuillard was a French painter.  He was born November 11, 1868.  Edouard moved several times in his life to learn more about art and to make money with his art.  In 1892 he started painting murals on peoples walls in their homes.  He stopped painting murals in 1937.  He died June 21, 1940.

Show Artwork:

#2-Mending a Stocking, 1891

• the main colors? 

• the patterns on her dress (or is it a coat?)

• wonderful flowers on the walls?

• abstract shapes on the upholstery?

• evidence of layers of painted colors?

• noticed green on her face?

• can you “see” the chair or couch?

#3-Mother and Daughter at the Table,1892

-He was 24 years old when he did this painting.

-size was about 15 in. by 11 in.

-painted with oils

-can ask what patterns or how many you can all count. 

#4-Figures in an Interior:Music, 1896

-size about 6 by 5 Feet.

-painted on a canvas

# 6-Misia Nathanson and Paul Vallotton, 1899

Project:

-What you need:

-copy of art page

-markers, crayons, or color pencils

-optional(ruler)

Have each student create several different patterns in the picture, as Edouard Vuillard did.