Art History Lesson Plans

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- For Grades K-12
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Art Across the Ages: Renaissance - Post-Modernism - This lesson looks at a wide array of eras in art history.
Celebrating Ancestors- Challenges them to visualize one of their ancestors and create a mask that will emphasize, through applied features, that ancestor's major characteristics.

Chinese Calligraphy: Language as Art
Female Artists in the New Millennium - Backgrounds and history of important woman that have changed music and changed the roles of future female musicians.
History of Book Making as an Art Form - The importance of journaling as means of Self - Expression.
Kukamunga Water Resist Painting Ocean Animal Adaptations- Students will write a short story about their Kukamunga, including an explanation of the usefulness of their body parts.
Learning about Pointillism - Students will learn about the work of George Seurat.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Students will be able to use the Venn diagram to start their 10 minute essay on comparing unknown images.
Ndebele Object Painting - The learner will organize the components of a work into a cohesive whole through knowledge of organizational principles of design and art elements.
Picasso's Guernica- Students will examine the painting, Guernica, by Picasso.
Proto Renaissance - Students will recognize the shift in style, substance and subject.
The American Spirit Through Art and Stained Glass - How American public art and popular visual media have been used to express the American spirit throughout its history.
Valuing Culture and Ethnicity - The students will be able to identify cultural and ethnic influences and characteristics in art.

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