This is still a work in progress. I will be updating it as I find more art works, projects, lesson plans and readings to accompany each artist.
There is one thing, though. These projects will not teach my children the skills they need to actually express themselves artistically. They're just projects to keep things fun. To actually teach children art, I would have to find a bona fide curriculum (incidentally, I have at least three) and teach it, skill building on skill. I've tried. They aren't interested and it's not worth fighting over. The Well Trained Mind suggests 18 weeks for Art Insruction, dividing one's time equally between drawing, painting and sculpture. A nice ideal.
I haven't decided whether we will cover all of these. There are 28 listed. As we only do Art every other week, I will have to pare this down quite a bit.
However, I thought I'd post for two reasons:
1)It may be useful to someone else and
2)If you can help with lesson plans and/or suggestions, I'd be ever so grateful!
Arranged chronologically by birth:
(beginning with correlating to the latter half of SoTW2)
Donatello (sculpture): 1386-1466 Lesson Plan
Van Eyck: 1395-1441 (done)
Botticelli: 1445-1510 Lesson Plan
(includes reading)
Hieronymous Bosch: 1450-1516
Works and biography here.
Project: Make a triptych. (Adapt for elementary!)
Leonardo da Vinci: 1452-1519 Lesson Plan
read: Leonadro Da Vinci. An Introduction to the Artist's Life and Work by Antony Mason (Famous Artists Series) and Knights of Art.
Video suggestion (from Ambelside Online): "Leonardo: A Dream of Flight," one of The Inventors' Specials by Devine Entertainment.
Albrecht Durer 1471-1528 This Lesson (.pdf file) discusses the difference between engravings and wood cuts and has the children create a wood cut with styrofoam. It also discusses Durer as religious.
Optional Art Project: Painting on Foil
Michelangelo 1475-1564 Lesson Plan
read: Michelangelo. An Introduction to the Artist's Lfe and Work by Jen Green (Famous Artists Series) and Knights of Art.
Raphael 1483-1520 Lesson Plan
read: Knights of Art.
Titian: 1485-1576
read: Knights of Art.
Born in the 1500s
Tintoretto: 1518-1594
read: Knights of Art.
Breugal (the Elder): 1525-1569
Caravaggio: 1571-1610
Reubens 1577-1640
Born in the 1600s
Rembrandt 1606-1669
Vermeer 1632-1675
Antoine Watteau: 1684-1721
William Hogarth: 1697-1764
Born in the 1700s
Joshua Reynolds: 1723-1792
George Stubbs: 1724-1806
Fragonard: 1732-1806
Benjamin West: 1732-1820
Jean-Louis David: 1748-1825
William Blake: 1757-1827
J. M. W. Turner: 1775-1851
John Constable: 1776-1837
Ingres: 1780-1867
John James Audubon: 1785-1851
Born in the 1800s (SoTW3 ends in 1849)
Honore Daumier: 1808-1879
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Wow. I'm going to go out on a limb, and state that I'm relatively certain I never heard anything about these artists in the 12 years I went to regular school. Pretty much all I learned about art was that I wasn't good at it. Because we were given arty things to do, and the kids that were naturally good at drawing or whatever did well, and those of us who weren't just did what we could, and eventually felt as though we were just "not artistic". It was only in my mid teen years when I had a friend (17 years older than I) who was an art-and-craft type, who showed me how to play with pastels, and did batik with me, and suchlike, that I started thinking that I *could* do art. My own kind of art.
But I still never learned anything about the great artists.
What you're doing is good.
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