Art With The Fauves : Lesson 1: Le Havre – Albert Marquet: Fair at Le Havre

Art With The Fauves

My Homeschool families have access to a range of online Art Appreciation Courses which examine the study of artists, their work, and techniques. Across all grades these are studied once a week all year.

In the Year 9 and 10 courses additional specific Art and Music Appreciation Courses are provided for high school students. Art With The Fauves and Capturing Modernity Through Photographs are included in the Year 9A course. Each of these courses run for one term and offer students the opportunity to examine these aspects of art history in detail. They are fully online and include notes to guide your teenager to better understand and appreciate these artworks. Art With The Fauves also includes art exercises to stretch and extend your teenager in various artistic pursuits and to give some variety in the way that you may have approached art appreciation in previous grades.

All of these activities have been designed to curate a broad educational feast for your teenager and to encourage them to continue to develop their skills and abilities within a range of areas.

Subject: Creative Arts

1. Lesson 1: Le Havre – Albert Marquet: Fair at Le Havre

Lesson 1: Le Havre – Albert Marquet: Fair at Le Havre

The Fauves were known for their outrageous use of colour after giving an exhibition in 1906 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. Art historians suggest that at the time there was a sense of audiences tiring somewhat after the era of Post-Impressionists and this pause saw exciting use of colour and a sudden burst of artistic energy. It caused a sensation. On Fauvism Matisse stated:

Fauvism for me was proof of the means of expression: to place side by side, assembled in an expressive and structural way, a blue, a red, a green. It was the result of a necessity within me, not a voluntary attitude arrived at by deduction or reasoning: it was something that only painting can do.

This Art Appreciation course will examine some of the artworks that were a part of this relatively short burst of artistic energy. Look for the location of the pieces each lesson, try your hand at the art activities included, and enjoy this sensational art.

This week the focus is on Le Havre in France. Le Havre as a place had a connection with the Impressionists, with the working port being featured in many of their paintings. It features the celebrations of Bastille Day, so there is lots of red, white and blue paint. It features strong brushwork: look for the way Marquet depicts people with dark vertical brushstrokes.

Art Activity

If you squint your eyes slightly while looking at the artwork you can see the main lines of the painting more clearly. Using this technique of identifying the primary lines of the painting, to reproduce these in sketch form, effectively creating a quick sketch of the key components of the painting.

You might also like to prepare an advertisement for the fair.

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