Sharing POI

Early Learning Teaching Your Child Encyclopedic Knowledge
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POI are so time consuming to create - It would be great if we could all share our hard work and post sets of POI for different subjects. If enough people are interested we could start up a weekly contribution list (as was previously done for bits) to share POIs.

Here’s my first list:

Category: Art
Division: Works of Monet

Impression, Sunrise

  1. Impression, Sunrise was painted by Claude Monet.

  2. Impression, Sunrise was painted in France.

  3. Impression, Sunrise is a landscape.

  4. The subject of the painting is the harbour of Le Havre.

  5. If you make a black and white copy of Impression, Sunrise, the sun disappears.

  6. Impression, Sunrise was painted in 1872.

  7. Impression, Sunrise was painted using oils on canvas.

  8. Impression, Sunrise was shown in the first impressionist exhibition in 1874.

  9. This painting now hangs in the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris.

  10.                Monet’s title for this painting gave a name impressionism to this style of art.

Poppies Blooming

  1. Poppies Blooming was painted by Claude Monet.

  2. Poppies Blooming was painted in Argentuil, France.

  3. Poppies Blooming is an impressionist landscape.

  4. The painting shows Monet’s wife and son walking through a field of poppies.

  5. In Poppies Blooming Monet tried to capture the changing nature of light.

  6. Poppies Blooming was painted in 1873.

  7. Poppies Blooming was painted using oils on canvas.

  8. Poppies Blooming is part of a series of paintings Monet made of poppies.

  9. This painting now hangs in the Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

  10.    As a young man, Monet was encouraged to paint outdoors, something he continued to do all his life.

The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest

  1.  The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest, was painted by Claude Monet.

  2.  The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest was painted in Chailly-en-Bière, near Fontainebleau, in France.

  3.  The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest is a landscape.

  4.  The subject of the painting is an oak in the forest near Fontainbleau.

  5.  The Bodmer Oak is named after the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), who exhibited his painting of the tree at the 1850 Salon.

  6.  The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest was painted in October 1865.

  7.  The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest was painted using oils on canvas.

  8.  Monet deliberately slashed the upper right-hand corner of this painting to discourage his landlord from seizing them in 1866.

  9.  The Bodmer Oak, Fontainebleau Forest now hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

  10.                Claude Monet was born in Paris, France in 1840.

San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk

  1. San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk was painted by Claude Monet.

  2. San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk was panted in Venice.

  3. San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk is a landscape.

  4. The subject for this painting was the island of San Giorgio in Venice.

  5. A view of the monastery island of San Giorgio, painted from the south-eastern end of Venice. On the right are faintly visible the dome of Santa Maria Salute and the mouth of the Grand Canal.

  6. San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk was painted in late November of 1908.

  7. San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk was painted using oils on canvas.

  8. A view of the monastery island of San Giorgio, painted from the south-eastern end of Venice. On the right are faintly visible the dome of Santa Maria Salute and the mouth of the Grand Canal.

  9. San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk is housed at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.
    During his stay in Venice, Monet studied works by artists like Titian and Paolo Veronese

Still Life, Apples and Grapes

  1. Still Life, Apples and Grapes was painted by Claude Monet.

  2. Still Life, Apples and Grapes was painted in France

  3. Still Life, Apples and Grapes is a still life.

  4. In this painting, Monet depicted two different kinds of apples, together with green and red grapes.

  5. Still life is where every day objects, such as fruit, are the subject of the painting.

  6. Still Life, Apples and Grapes was painted in 1880.

  7. Still Life, Apples and grapes was painted using oils on canvas.

  8. Claude Monet took up still-life painting for a time around 1880.

  9. Still Life, Apples and Grapes now hangs in The Art Institute of Chicago

  10.                By 1859 Monet had committed himself to a career as an artist and began to spend as much time in Paris as possible.

I hope I won’t be the only one adding to this thread :laugh:

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Hi there,
We are all starting to gather EK info including POI and in the next few weeks KL will open a board just for this :slight_smile:
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-encyclopedic-knowledge/encyclopedic-knowledge-categories-for-free-made-by-you!-(feasibility-study)/

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Guess I missed that one :wub:
I’d be happy to help as and when its up lol