Grade | Lesson | Description | Featured Artists |
Kindergarten |
Eric Carle/Collage |
An artist study |
Eric Carle |
Jackson Pollock |
An artist study |
Jackson Pollock |
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Street Art
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Visual art created in public locations |
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Lines |
The arrangement of basic lines and shapes. What you can create simply by using a line. |
Mondrian, Miro, and Klee |
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First |
Portraits |
A piece of art that shows what people look like, and also provides clues about their lives. |
Renoir, Sargent, Picasso |
Norman Rockwell |
Art as an occupation: Artists who are commissioned and paid to make art for commercial use (magazines, books, etc.). |
Rockwell |
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Lines/Shapes | The arrangement of basic lines and shapes. The idea of “taking your line for a walk” to see what you can create simply using a line. | Kandinsky, Mondrian | |
CCC: Mexico | A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture. | ||
Second |
Near/Far |
How various artists use visual relationships in a painting to show distance and space between various elements. |
Wyeth, Hockney |
Keith Haring |
A look at the life and contemporary work of Keith Haring |
Haring |
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Seurat/Monet |
A look at the life and artwork of George Seurat (pointillism). A look at the life and artwork of Claude Monet. Compare and contrast styles. |
Seurat, Monet |
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CCC: Ellis Island |
A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture. |
Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty) |
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Third |
Still Life and Light: How Green is Your Apple? |
Dramatic examples of how light is used to create effect, mood and time of day and an artist’s arrangement of inanimate objects. |
Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso |
Cassatt |
A look at the life and artwork of Mary Cassatt. |
Cassatt |
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Chagall |
A look at the life and artwork of Marc Chagall. |
Chagall |
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CCC: Cultural Fair Paper Lanterns Lesson |
A look at art, logos, pictograms that are used in these different countries/cultures presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration. |
Bingham, Currier and Ives, Wood |
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Fourth |
O’Keefe |
A look at the life and artwork of Georgia O’Keefe. |
O’Keefe |
Landscape/Seascapes |
Art that depicts natural scenery as an artist’s primary focus and where people and objects are secondary. Images of the ever-changing sea, and the people who work on or near water. |
Cezanne, Constable, Homer, Vickery |
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Stained Glass |
How artists use glass to create art. |
Chagall, Tiffany, Wright |
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CCC: Extreme Weather |
A look at art that expresses extreme weather situations presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture. |
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Fifth |
Da Vinci and the Human Figure |
A look at the life and artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci. |
Da Vinci |
MC Escher |
A look at M.C. Escher’s artwork. A master illusionist who incorporated math, science, and imagination into his art. |
Escher |
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Van Gogh/Gauguin |
An overview of two artists’ work and friendship while in Arles, France. |
Van Gogh, Gauguin |
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CCC: Williamsburg |
A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture. |
Creating shadow portraits. |
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Sixth |
Surrealism |
A look into how artists interpret their visions and dreams into their paintings, often arranging unrelated or unexpected objects together. |
Blume, Dali, Magritte |
Pop Art |
A style derived from commercial art forms (e.g. advertising) and characterized by larger than life replicas of items from popular culture. |
Rauschenberg, Warhol |
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Cubism (PowerPoint) |
The use of abstract, fragmented shapes to depict several views of the same subject simultaneously, emphasizing the basic geometry or structure of a subject. |
Braque, Picasso |
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CCC: Silk Road (YouTube Video) |
A look at art from the culture presented through this grade’s CCC curriculum. The assigned Art Appreciation project will be used in conjunction with the CCC festival as decoration or prop to further understanding of this culture. |
Rug designs on burlap |