Flower Art By Major Artists Floral Art Art History Botany

This is a complete, highly visual presentation about Flower Painting Art as done by major painters in Art History.
a) complete presentation on Botanical Botany Floral Flower Art History
b) Google student searches
c) Flash-Discussion Cards
c) making artist card–(to share with class)
d) making enhanced visual based question–(to share with class)
e) visually enhanced multiple choice test
f) Student Role Play

EXCERPT:
Flowers were prized by the nobility and the wealthy centuries ago. It was a sign of your great status to have a garden, a library stocked with books and art works about the garden and so forth.

Impressionists, Post Impressionists, and Fauvists amply covered flower painting. If one wants beautiful representations of flowers in art, all three of these movements contain outstanding art works.

Among the Impressionists, Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Camille Pissarro and others, painted flowers the world fell in love with generation after generation.

Likewise the Post Impressionists had the prolific floral output of Vincent van Gogh, along with the flower paintings of Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau and others.

Henri Matisse and Raoul Dufy applied their vivid true colors to flowers after the above artists.

In the early 20th century, the Cubists fragmented the flower into geometric shapes. The flowers were made into cylinders or spheres or orbs. These looked nothing like what one would receive in the real world as a flower…CONTINUED IN PRESENTATION