Art Curriculum Homeschool en México M.E. Gabriela Rodriguez Objective: Appreciate art and get to know the most important artists of the modern and contemporary period. Instructions: In the first part of this curriculum, you will see the list of artists that correspond to the 19 th century art and modern and contemporary period. The kids will study each artist per week. Instructor needs to read the first link to know about the artist and explain to the kids the more important facts they need to know about the artist. I recommend study with khan
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Art Curriculum Homeschool en México M.E. Gabriela Rodriguez
Objective: Appreciate art and get to know the most important artists of the modern and contemporary period. Instructions: In the first part of this curriculum, you will see the list of artists that correspond to the 19th century art and modern and contemporary period. The kids will study each artist per week. Instructor needs to read the first link to know about the artist and explain to the kids the more important facts they need to know about the artist. I recommend study with khan
academy about each artist per week. I also recommend to buy books about each artist, and put it where the kids can reach them. 19TH-CENTURY ART • William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead
and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840 • Claude Monet, Les Nymphéas (The Water Lilies), 1840-1926 (Monet
magnets) • Jean-François Millet, L’Angélus, c. 1857-1859 • Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884 (Coffee mug of
this artwork) • Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-95 (Coffee mug of this
artwork) • Paul Gauguin, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we
going?, 1897-98 Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889 (On ACFK, 5 Exciting Art History Projects for Kids that Made me Say “WOW!”) (Umbrella of this artwork) MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART • Henri Matisse, Harmony in Red/La Desserte, 1908 (Jigsaw puzzle of
this artwork) • Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1910 (Inflatable Scream Doll) • Franz Marc, Fate of the Animals, 1913 (On ACFK, Art Spotlight: Franz
Marc’s Fate of the Animals) • Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911 (On ACFK, 5 Artworks Your
Children will Love) (Poster of this artwork) • Wassily Kandinsky, Panel for Edwin R. Campbell No. 4, 1914 • Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931 (Melting clock) • Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 (Jigsaw puzzle of this artwork) • Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 (On ACFK, 5 Artworks to Intrigue
Your High Schooler) (Poster of this artwork) • Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950, 1950 (Book about this
artwork) • Francis Bacon, Study after Velazquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X,
1953 (On ACFK, Art Around the World in 30 Days – Ireland) • Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962 (Converse shoes of this
artwork) • Robert Rauschenberg, Skyway, 1964
19TH-CENTURY ART • Week 1
William Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On), 1840 (Poster of this artwork) http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/slave-ship-slavers-throwing-overboard-the-dead-and-dying-typhoon-coming-on-31102 Activity: Try to recreate one of his paintings with colors. They can also explore different techniques like filling a balloon with air and then with paint, put it in the material you want to paint and with a pin exploit the balloon.
Claude Monet, Les Nymphéas (The Water Lilies), 1840-1926 (Monet magnets) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Lilies_(Monet_series) Activity: https://itisartday.blogspot.mx/2015/02/kindergarten-reflection-collage.html
More ideas: https://artsycraftsymom.com/art-appreciation-10-claude-monet-art-projects-for-kids/
• Week 3 Auguste Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-95 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/avant-garde-sculpture/a/rodin-the-burghers-of-calais Activity: Replicate with play dooh “The Burghers of Calais”
Week 4 Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889 (On ACFK, 5 Exciting Art History Projects for Kids that Made me Say “WOW!”) (Umbrella of this artwork) https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/avant-garde-france/post-impressionism/a/van-gogh-the-starry-night Activity:
Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78984
Activity: http://artcuratorforkids.com/5-artworks-your-children-will-love/ From that link you can get this activity: Explore with the kids this painting. Ask them what they think is going on. Let them take the lead in figuring it out. Your role is to facilitate their unraveling of the painting through asking questions and connecting their ideas together.
Questions to ask: What is going on in this painting? What do you see that makes you say that? Is this a real or imaginary place? What elements of this painting seem real and what elements seem dreamlike? What emotions do you notice in the artwork? How did the artist use line, shape, and color to contribute to the mood or meaning? Why do you think this artist created this work?
• Week 12 Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937 (Jigsaw puzzle of this artwork) https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/early-abstraction/cubism/a/picasso-guernica Picasso is a popular artists, and is consider one of the great masters. “His art is displayed in museums all over the world. He invented an art movement and in doing so crowned himself The King of Cubism.” You can find more activities here: https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/picasso-artist-bundle/ Here is the free worksheet: https://www.deepspacesparkle.com/shop/pablo-picasso-student-worksheet/ Activity: full instructions here http://www.handmakery.com/2015/03/masks-in-the-making/
• Week 13 Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-1010/art-between-wars/latin-american-modernism1/a/kahlo-the-two-fridas-las-dos-fridas You can talk about Frida paintings, and the way she use to paint herself. Invite the kids to try to paint a self-portrait. Maybe you can use a photo of his face and he can paint the rest.
Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950, 1950 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78386 Activity: I think that Jackson Pollock is the most fun to work with. This activity of pistol painting is going to rock. http://www.messylittlemonster.com/2016/05/water-pistol-painting-outdoor-kids-art.html#more But you can do also this idea:
