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1st Grade – Recreating Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night

1st Grade – Recreating Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night

Description of the Unit – Students observed and discussed Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting, Starry Night, and, using what they noticed in the painting regarding color, texture and movement, attempted to recreate it in oil pastel.

Vincent van Gogh's original painting of Starry Night, painted in 1889, and using heavily textured brush strokes to express the swirling of wind and twinking of stars.
Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh, 1889
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