START WITH ART: Harvest: Le Pouldu

This takes us less than five minutes each morning and tends to be re-visited later in the day at the dinner table or during our evening reading sessions. 

Here's how to #STARTWITHART:

Step one: Take a look at the artwork below

Step two: Read the questions below the picture of the art to the students/children in your life

Step three: See how starting your day with art can ignite creativity and critical thinking! 

It's that easy! Let's go! 

Title: Harvest: Le Pouldu

Artist: Paul Gauguin

Date: 1890

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 73 × 92.1 cm

Start with Art Questions:

• What objects do you spy in this artwork? 

• Gauguin often painted flat areas of color. Do you see the flat areas? How do they work together to make a landscape? 

• If you were in this painting, what sounds might you hear? What might you smell? 

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