Meet the Masters teaches the students about the famous Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. Later this year, they will learn about other master artists.
First-grader Oscar Solis stood onstage dressed up as Vincent van Gogh in an oversized brown blazer and ginger beard. He held a paintbrush and palette.
Then came the finishing touch for his head: a straw hat with three blue candles fixed on top.
“He liked to paint all night, and they didn’t have electricity back then,” said speaker Joan McMahan of Meet the Masters, an art education program that introduces students to artists.
Pomona Elementary School students from kindergarten up to sixth grade learned about the life, works and painting style of van Gogh during their first Meet the Masters assembly. McMahan will come back to the Costa Mesa school six more times this year to teach the students about Claude Monet, Winslow Homer, Pablo Picasso, Mary Cassatt, Piet Mondrian and M.C. Escher.