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Two Muses Homeschool. Two Muses Homeschool. Art Spotlight. This document has all 36 prints from Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji. The following links will help you discuss these works with your children.
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Two Muses Homeschool Two Muses Homeschool Art Spotlight • This document has all 36 prints from Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji. • The following links will help you discuss these works with your children. • Art Spotlight: Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji: The original blog post about these works with commentary, discussion questions, and learning activities • Woodblock Printing with Kids tutorial • Free Art Appreciation Printable Worksheet Bundle • How to Look at Art with Children • All art postson Two Muses Homeschool Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fiji Two Muses Homeschool, Cindy Zerm Ingram, twomuseshomeschool@gmail.com, http://twomuseshomeschool.com Included:
Two Muses Homeschool Two Muses Homeschool Conventions of Japanese Ukiyo-E Prints • peaceful, harmonious scenes • asymmetrical composition • limited color palette of about 4 colors plus black • unclear space or perspective • diagonal or curved lines that guide your eye through the composition • outlined shapes filled with solid, flat color Two Muses Homeschool, Cindy Zerm Ingram, twomuseshomeschool@gmail.com, http://twomuseshomeschool.com Included:
Two Muses Homeschool Two Muses Homeschool Questions to Ask • What is going on in this artwork? What do you see that makes you say that? • What emotions do you feel when looking at this artwork? What emotions do you think the artist was feeling? • Describe the lines and colors in this artwork. How do the colors and lines contribute to the emotion? • Describe the ways Hokusai included Mount Fuji in the artworks. • What can you tell about the Japanese way of life in the Edo Period by looking at these artworks? What types of things are the people doing? • What do these artworks have in common? How could you tell that these were created by Hokusai during this time period? Two Muses Homeschool, Cindy Zerm Ingram, twomuseshomeschool@gmail.com, http://twomuseshomeschool.com Included:
Two Muses Homeschool Two Muses Homeschool Learning Activities Haiku Poetry. This painting is perfect for a poetry-writing exercise, especially haiku because of the Japan connection. You can download a free haiku writing worksheet by signing up for my e-mail list here. The worksheet walks the students through a warm-up of writing adjectives, verbs, phrases, and metaphors before they end up with their haiku. Have students pick their favorite Hokusai work to write about. Woodblock Printing. These paintings are woodblock print, so a natural fit would be a printing activity so your students can better understand how these were made. There are lots of way to do this at home, and I just did a post about this earlier in the week to prepare for this post. Click over to that post to learn about all the ways you can do woodblock prints at home with your kids. Compare/Contrast. Pick 3-4 of Hokusai's prints (or all of them if you are feeling ambitious) and have the students make a list of all of the things these prints have in common. Through this activity, your students will come up with the conventions of ukiyo-e printing as described on page 2. Two Muses Homeschool, Cindy Zerm Ingram, twomuseshomeschool@gmail.com, http://twomuseshomeschool.com Included:
Hokusai, AsakusaHongan-ji temple in the Eastern capital, 1830
Hokusai, Fuji viewed from rice fields in Owari Province, 1830
Hokusai, Mount Fuji reflects in Lake Kawaguchi, seen from the Misaka Pass in Kai Province, 1830
Hokusai, Sunset across the Ryōgoku bridge from the bank of the Sumida River at Onmayagashi, 1830
Hokusai, Tea house at Koishikawa. The morning after a snowfall, 1830
