Visites-ateliers for children

During the end-of-year holidays, Caumont Art Center is offering tours and workshops for children based on the exhibition “A Collector's View: Caillebotte, Vallotton, Lempicka, Valadon, Picasso, Renoir, Manet...”
Children aged 6 to 12 will travel through styles and eras, discovering the colors, shapes, and techniques of the great artists. After a fun tour of the exhibition, a cultural mediator will guide the children in creating artwork inspired by the artist.
Experimenting to better understand: that is the goal of our workshop tours!

Themes

Pop-up card: Journey on the Bridge of Europe

Children will explore the urban and modern world of the 19th century through Gustave Caillebotte's famous painting The Bridge of Europe. A cultural mediator will guide them in observing this iconic Impressionist work, inviting them to identify the characters, clothing, metal architecture of the bridge, and signs of modern life.

After this immersion in 19th-century Paris, the children will create a pop-up card inspired by Caillebotte's painting, which they will personalize based on the work and their imagination.
Dates: Mondays, December 22 and 29

The magic of tiny juxtaposed dots

In the section dedicated to pointillism, children will discover the luminous works of Henri-Edmond Cross and Maximilien Luce, two artists who painted the world using a multitude of tiny colored dots. Guided by a mediator, they will learn how these artists made light vibrate by juxtaposing colors rather than mixing them.

After this discovery, it's time to experiment! Children will use cotton swabs and gouache to create their own landscape or still life, dot by dot, color by color. A fun workshop where everyone can play with light, invent textures, and watch their image appear as if by magic... one dot at a time.
Dates:  Tuesdays, December 23 and 30

Fauvist colors, bursts of energy and light

Children will discover the vibrant world of the Fauvist artists, early 20th-century painters who loved to use bright colors, bold contrasts, and simplified forms to bring their paintings to life. Guided by a mediator, they will observe how these artists transformed everyday scenes into joyful and dynamic images, where color takes center stage.

They will then create their own Fauvist scene, inspired by a lively market or a colorful landscape. Using pastels, they will dare to use unexpected colors: purple shadows, orange houses, turquoise vegetables... A workshop where everyone can play with the intense flat colors and creative freedom that were the strength of the Fauves.
A moment full of color, energy, and imagination!
Dates: Wednesdays, December 24 and 31

A cubist city with a thousand viewpoints

Children will immerse themselves in the surprising world of early 20th-century artists, who loved to break down shapes, multiply viewpoints, and transform cities into colorful puzzles. With the help of a mediator, they will observe how buildings, streets, and rooftops become triangles, rectangles, zigzags, and bursts of color, as if the city were dancing before their eyes.

They will then move on to creation: a cubist city entirely imagined by them. Using colored paper filled with various geometric patterns, they will cut, assemble, superimpose, rotate, and slide shapes to invent a rhythmic urban landscape. A playful collage in which each child will compose their own decomposed and lively city, just as the artists of the time would have imagined it!
Dates: Fridays, December 26 and January 2