Jumping Ahead to Chagall

Just found out that our local art museum, of which we’re members, has an exhibit of Chagall, so I think we’ll take a break from our current Meet the Masters artist, Picasso, to learn a bit about Chagall.  It’s actually not THAT big a leap.  They’re both modern artists who started in a more traditional mode before veering off into cubism and – more for Chagall – surrealism.
Did you know that his name was really Moishe Shagalov? 
Here are some resources we’ll be using for Chagall, in the absence of a Meet the Masters script to make me sound smart-about-art!

• This helpful slideshow – perhaps with some appropriate accompanying music, if I can find any.
• The slideshow is followed by a couple of helpful lessons, including one on pastel techniques and one on gesture drawing.
• Here’s a simple way to create an “I and the Village” type artwork.
• Basic printable bio from Making Art Fun,
• And, of course, no artist study would be complete without the “matching” Mike Venezia title – in this case, Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists:  Marc Chagall
• I believe I also have this Marc Chagall book, which I bought used as part of the excellent Art for Children series last year.  We’ll also be reading the Picasso volume. (these older books are beautiful and well worth investing in if you can find them for a decent price)

Here’s a “stained glass” window project that I think is utterly gorgeous – and I have certainly seen more than my fair share of fake stained glass in 42 years of parenting.  I don’t think it’s quite “do-able” for us at the moment, though I’m not sure why.  It might make a nice pre-Chanukah project, as well.  I like stained glass at this time of year.
In case you’re wondering why I mention 42 years of parenting:

• 17 years of raising Yerachmiel Meir,
• 15 for Elisheva Chaya,
• 6 for Naomi,
• plus 4 for Gavriel Zev…

Equals 42 years of parenting.  You can’t argue with math like that!
How many years have YOU been raising your kids???