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PLEASE NOTE: This course outline is tentative and currently under reconstruction.
Objectives
- To develop skilled, intelligent and articulate consumers/creators of visual images;
- To acquire skills/awareness of artistic preferences, processes, philosophies and production values as they relate to art education;
- To impart a introductory knowledge of the terminology and history of ideas as evidenced in art;
- To increase the students’ ability to grow ideas and improve decision making skills;
- To impart an enhanced understanding of the interconnectivity of art, society and personal development in each individuals experience with visual images.
- To gain an increased understanding of the arts industry as a potential career direction
Proposed Units of Instruction:
August: Art History Introduction
Prehistoric art
As far back as 20,000 years ago, people painted and incised images of animals deep inside caves.
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On-line Cave Art Lesson
The Caves of Lascaux website
Southwestern US Rock Art Gallery
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Students will create an artwork in response to our study of the first artists.
Questions to discuss at home:
Is art a universal language?
How does art appear in your everyday life?
What is art?
Where did art come from?
Who made the first art? |
September:
Eqyptian Art
Ancient Egypt. The earliest Egyptian sculpture was closed and engaged.
Greece.
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Egyptian Art Handout #1
Egyptian Art Handout #2
Egyptian Art Handout #3 (hieroglyphics)
Egyptian Art Handout #4 (columns)
Egyptian Art Handout #5 (Egyptian Figure Proportions)
Egyptian Art Handout #6 (Scarabs)
Major Project for Unit: Egyptian Portraits! (Lesson Plan)
How to Make Your Own Cartouche |
Students will create 21st Century Egyptian profile portraits in response to our study of Egyptian Art. |
October: Roman Art
The arch and buttress have enabled builders to construct buildings with large interior spaces.
Byzantine art The churches of the Byzantine empire were richly decorated with mosaics.
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Roman Art reading, Page 1
Roman Art reading, Page 2
Roman Wax Portraits
Encaustic Panal Painting
Pompeii Wall Painting
Paper Roman Mosaics
Paper Roman Mosaics #2
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After studying roman architecture and art, the students will create a paper Roman mosaic.
Questions to discuss at home:
What can you tell about other cultures from their art?
Do you see Roman mosaics or arches used today in modern buildings?
How is an image created fom many small units? |
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Medieval Book Art Information For Students
Page 2 of Medieval Book Art
Homework Project: Beautiful Letters!
Decorated Book Covers! (Bonus Project)
Medieval Decorative Art Information
Page 2 of Medieval Decorative Art Information
Medieval Tapestry Project (Option)
Diptychs and Triptychs Project (Option)
Heironymous Bosch Activity
Stained Glass Windows
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Students will design and decorate capital letters with pen and ink and colors.
Students will also create a stick book in response to our study of book art and history.
Questions to discuss at home:
Why were books made by hand at this time?
Why were these books so richly decorated and illustrated?
Why would someone want to make a rubbing of an effigy?
How does a rubbing work to create an image on your paper?
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December: Chinese Painting
Chinese Painting, A traditional Chinese painting shows the artist knowledge as well as the artist thoughts and feeling about nature.
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Introduction to Chinese Painting
Brush painting lesson
Chinese painting lesson
Chinese painting lesson handout
Step-by-Step Chinese Painting Demonstration |
Chinese Painting, A traditional Chinese painting shows the artist knowledge as well as the artist thoughts and feeling about nature.
Questions to discuss at home:
Is a Chinese painting completly painted or merely suggested?
Besides the differnce in perspective, how do these painting differ from western paintings?
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January: Persian Miniatures!
Persian Minatures,Persian Minatures are small very detailed works of art that were created to illustrate stories.
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An Introduction to Persian miniatures from the Wikipedia |
Persian Minatures,Persian Minatures are small very detailed works of art that were created to illustrate stories.
Students analyze a reproduction of a miniature hunting scene showing a landscape with animals and hunters and compare the landscape with places they have been. They identify patterns made by repeated lines and colors, draw horizon lines and miniature people, houses, trees, birds, and clouds and sketch stick figures. They create a miniature landscape that tells a story about their own adventures and decorate the borders with patterns and colors.
Questions to discuss at home:
How do these painting differ from western paintings?
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February: Leonardo Da Vinci & The Renaissance
"Vitruvian Man"
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Leonardo reading 1
Leonardo's wing machine
More machine plans
More machine plans 2
Leonardo's inventions
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Students will visualize several ideas make, thumbnail sketches, select one for further development and draw an invention.
Students will paint in the style of Michelangelo in the Sistene Chapel while lyiing on their backs under the tables.
Students will make a modern Mona Lisa.
Questions to discuss at home:
How does an artist/inventor take an idea and make it a complete design?
What creates the illusion of volume in a drawing? |
March: The Rebirth/Renaissance
The students will identify the artistic contributions of the Renaissance
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Questions to discuss at home:
Why do Artists make many drawings before the final masterpiece? How does an artist restrict a viewing area for a given composition?
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April: El Greco and Mannerism.
Artist can distort the size, shapes and colors of what they paint to make thier pictures more dramatic.
Throughout history, artist have found many different ways to show figures in action.
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May: Rembrant van Rijn.
Artist use chiaroscuro, light and dark values,to model forms and express mood.
Constable and Turner. Mood can be created by special qualities of light and atmosphere.
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June: Renior, Impressionism and Vincent van Gogh.
A painting can be done in color without hard out lines. Artist convey their feelings through their use of color, texture and line.
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Summer Projects! Pablo Picasso and Cubism.
Artist often show a profile and full face view simultaneously, suggesting the fourth dimension, time. Expressive Color is an important element in showing feelings, dreams and fantasies.
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