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Lesson 33: The Eiffel Tower

by Georges-Pierre Seurat

Directions

Study the painting for one week.

Over the week:

• Look at the painting.
• Read the synopsis.
• Study the vocabulary words.
• Read about the artist.
• Practice reciting the names of the artist and the painting.
• Complete the enrichment activities.
• Study the review questions.

Synopsis

Georges Seurat's 'La tour Eiffel' (The Eiffel Tower) shows the incomplete Eiffel Tower just before its official 1889 unveiling in Paris, where it served as the grand entrance to the World Fair. The Eiffel tower has become the most visited fee-based tourist attraction in the world. Constructed of wrought iron, it is eighty-one stories tall and the tallest building in Paris. Seurat employed pointillism while painting 'La Tour Eiffel.'

Vocabulary

Iron: A strong, hard silvery-gray metal.
Wrought Iron: A tough, malleable form of iron suitable for shaping with heat or rolling.
Pointillism: A technique of painting using tiny dots of colors, which blend in the viewer's eye.
Unveil: Remove a veil or covering from.
Tourist: Someone who travels and visits a site or attraction.

Concepts

Georges-Pierre Seurat painted 'The Eiffel Tower.'

1. Georges Seurat was born in 1859, in Paris, France. See his picture below.

2. Find Seurat's country of birth on the map of Europe below.

3. Seurat pioneered the painting technique of pointillism. In pointillism, artists apply many small dots of color close together such that they blend together when viewed from a distance.
4. In 1891, Seurat died at the age of 31 of an unknown illness in Paris.

Enrichment

Activity 1: Can You Find It?

During the week, study the painting and find the following:

• Eiffel Tower
• Sky
• Tree

Activity 2: Narrate the Painting

• After studying the painting, narrate the scene shown in the painting aloud using your own words.

Activity 3: Complete Vocabulary Activities

• While studying the vocabulary words, point them out in the painting.
• Define each of the vocabulary words in your own words.

Activity 4: Act Out the Painting

• Pretend to be the Eiffel Tower.
• Clasp your hands together, raise them straight over your head, and widen your stance.

Activity 5: Color the Painting   

• Click the crayon above, and complete page 42 of 'Kindergarten Art History Coloring Book.'

Review

Question 1

What is the setting of the painting?

1 / 4

Answer 1

Outside near the Eiffel Tower.

1 / 4

Question 2

Where is the Eiffel Tower?

2 / 4

Answer 2

Paris, France.

2 / 4

Question 3

What is a tourist?

3 / 4

Answer 3

Someone who travels and visits a site or attraction.

3 / 4

Question 4

What is the tallest building in Paris, France?

4 / 4

Answer 4

The Eiffel Tower.

4 / 4

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1. What is the setting of the painting? Outside near the Eiffel Tower.
2. Where is the Eiffel Tower? Paris, France.
3. What is a tourist? Someone who travels and visits a site or attraction.
4. What is the tallest building in Paris, France? The Eiffel Tower.

References

'Georges-Pierre Seurat.' Wikipedia. Wikipedia.org. n.p.