ART GALLERY Paul Signac & Pointillism Paul Signac was a French artist made famous for beginning of pointillism. Soon, pointillism went even further and came to be helping to develop the pointillism style. Up close, his called Neo-Impressionism, a style in which artists used the pointillism technique paintings just look like thousands of colorful dots. But, to showcase bold colors. Georges was the father of Neo-Impressionism, and when when you take a step back and look again, the dots blend he died, Paul became the leader of this new art movement. artfully together to show landscapes, people and other Paul spent his career working with pointillism and Neo-Impressionism. He scenery. used this style to capture landscape scenes of the French Paul Victor Jules Signac was born on coast and other areas. A sailor, in 1892 he began November 11, 1863, in Paris, France. The traveling to various European ports and painted large only child of wealthy parents, Paul grew canvases based on rough sketches he made on his travels. up in a neighborhood filled with famous Color was very important to him, and he loved to artists and stage actors. As a child, he was experiment with different mediums. He painted drawn to the creative world but decided watercolors and oil paintings but also made many to study architecture instead of fine arts. etchings and pen-and-ink drawings, all done in the small However, when Paul was 18, he saw the dots of pointillism. By the turn of the century, however, he artwork of Claude Monet and became took pointillism to a new level and started creating works convinced that he should be a painter of art out of small squares of color rather than the instead of an architect. thousands of dots. This stayed in the Neo-Impressionism style but gave his later work more of a mosaic feel. Although Paul had no formal art Paul died on August 15, 1935, in Paris. He left behind training, he was supported by his parents’ numerous important works of art, as well as a book and money and did not have to work. So, he could spend time painting and learning from his own mistakes. He several articles that are all now used to set the standards was particularly drawn to Impressionist art, which used bright colon Neo-Impressionism artwork. Written by Tamar Burris, a former elementary school ors and short brushstrokes that did not include a lot of detail work. teacher who now works as a freelance writer and curriculum In 1884, Paul met fellow artist Georges Seurat, who painted in a developer for PBS, the Discovery Channel and other educationdifferent style. Working with Georges, Paul soon abandoned his related companies. Sources: Paul Signac on Art Archive, www. short brushstrokes and began experimenting with painting artchive.com/artchive/S/signac.html; Paul Signac on Renoir Fine Women at the Well, 1892, by Paul patterns of dots on his canvases. Together, the dots formed an Art, Inc., www.renoirinc.com/biography/artists/signac.htm; Paul Signac. On display in the Musée image of a landscape or a portrait of a person. This was the Signac on Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac. d’Orsay, Paris.
Learn more about...Tanzania.
From Wind to Water
Located on the west coast of the continent of Africa, Tanzania is home to both the highest mountain and the largest lake on the continent. Kilimanjaro the highest mountain, is located in northeast Tanzania near the Kenya border, rising in two snowcapped peaks to 19,340 ft. The higher of the two peaks was first climbed in 1889. Lake Victoria, also referred to as Victoria Nyanza, is the main reservoir of the Nile River. It is located on the borders of Tanzania and Uganda with a small part extending into Kenya. Lake Victoria occupies an area of approximately 26,800 square miles and is the second-largest freshwater lake in the world, the only larger one being Lake Superior in North America.
Open a faucet, and fresh water will quench thirst. Turn a handle, and a shower will cleanse a person. But what if the tap was dry, and bringing water home was your job? Almost one billion people around the world live this way. One in eight people does not have immediate access to clean water, and lugging it home for miles often is the only option. Within the next 10 to 20 years, worldwide demand for fresh water could outstrip supply by 20 percent. It soon could cost more than oil. Growing up in Greenwald, Minnesota, Daniel Ohmann was acquainted with pumping water. Windmills were found on most farms. His father installed many windmills to pump water before electricity reached the area. Years later, as a Maryknoll priest in Tanzania, Father Ohmann thought about the windmills as women carried five-gallon water buckets on their heads six miles from a river. Drought is common in Africa. Villagers often can be seen scooping murky water from makeshift wells in scorched riverbeds. “You don’t need to be here long to see that water is the number-one need in this part of Africa,” said Father Ohmann. When Minnesota farmers converted to electricity, many donated their windmills to Father Ohmann. Others were purchased from Nebraska, Australia and South Africa to support Tanzania’s initiative to ensure all homes had access to water. Government ineffi ciencies, though, eventually closed the windmills for 15 years. But Father Ohmann was committed to get them pumping again, and more were installed. Twenty windmills now provide water to 18 villages. Each fi lls a 2,000-gallon tank, and water can be used to irrigate gardens and orchards. “People enjoy better health in the villages served by clean water,” said Father Ohmann. And he’s proof that one person’s ideas can make a difference. Source: NewsUSA and www.maryknollsociety.org.
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