January issue of arTree magazine is here! And art docents at many schools started teaching the kids about Pieter Bruegel and the atmospheric perspective in his landscapes.
In a shortcut: Pieter was a Flemish Renaissance landscape artist. He loved painting ordinary people at work. So, often he dressed up as a peasant and walked among them to observe and sketch them. He sometimes even went to a wedding nobody invited him to – just to be able to paint it authentically.
He also loved mountains and sketched many of them in Italy. When he got back to Netherlands he added them to many of his paintings. And it was at that time when painters started using atmospheric perspective in their work (scattering of light that makes mountains in the distance appear lighter/bluer).
That’s January’s main project in arTree magazine – and is being used by art docents at different schools in different grades. These are examples from one of WA schools: Kindergarten and 3rd grade. Mt. Rainer has never been so colorful!
Mount Rainier by Kindergarteners (above) and St. Mary’s Lake by 3rd graders (below).
If you would like to teach this lesson at your school, you can download and use the Power point Presentation here:
Atmospheric perspective for K-3 (Mount Rainer National Park): http://sdrv.ms/1j9wsLj
Atmospheric perspective for 3-6 (St. Mary’s Lake at Glacier National Park): http://sdrv.ms/KlUH9W
And if you would like to learn more, get all of the information and other examples, visit our website. Make your art docent program really stand out!
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