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A 5th Grade Project: Landscapes with Gold Leaf
Fifth grade is the year where art skills are refined through crafting pen and ink drawings, watercolor paintings, and sculptures focusing on proportion, value, and scale. Students also begin translating words into pictures and pictures into words by investigating through depicting settings, combining shapes for meaning, using color for mood, and responding to art.
Art is at the Core: Hokusai's Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
Katsushika Hokusai was born in 1760 to an artisan family in Edo, Japan. He became an apprentice to a woodcarver at the age of 14. At 18, he was accepted into the school of Katsukawa Shunsho, where he began his mastery of ukiyo-e, a style of woodblock printing and painting.
