Post Impressionism: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists

Whether you’re an art teacher focusing on art history, or a social studies teacher who wants to incorporate art into a multi-cultural unit on world history, “Post Impressionism: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists” is a unit you can use for many years to come. The narrator’s script, which accompanies each slide show, focuses on the artist’s style, childhood, art training, artistic reputation, curious facts, end of life, and each of the subjects or genres in which he created art. The slide shows highlight the following artists:

• Cezanne — 43 works of art described with almost 120 facts, and almost 120 details about his life and art style

• Gauguin — 43 works of art described with more than 130 facts, and almost 100 details about his life and art style

• Van Gogh — 52 works of art described with more than 125 facts, and almost 120 details about his life and style

• Seurat — 34 works of art described with nearly 85 facts, and more than 60 details about his life and style

• Toulouse-Lautrec — 42 works of art described with nearly 80 facts, and more than 100 details about his life and style

• Matisse — 53 works of art described with 120 facts, and nearly 100 details about his life and style

Included in this unit is a teaching manual, which will guide you in using the slide shows and narrator’s scripts and a simple timeline that shows when each artist lived. In addition, a critical thinking assignment called “Artist Evaluation” will ask your students to analyze what they’ve learned about each artist as you present the slide shows. A “Grading Rubric” is included for your convenience.

If you’re interested in slide shows on master artists of other eras, I will be uploading units on:

• The High Renaissance
• The Northern Renaissance
• The Baroque
• Romanticism & Classicism
• Impressionism
• Landscape Artists
• The American Frontier
• Modern Artists of Europe
• Modern Artists of America
• Abstract