Grade

Concepts and Elements of Art

Artworks Focused in Curriculum

First

Students will...

*review basic skills like drawing, cutting, and identification of shapes and colors.

*learn to work with shape, color, balance, and planned pattern.

*learn that... art can be narrative, art can imply movement or move

Students will be looking at...

*The Cave Paintings at Lascaux (France)

*The Architecture of the Taj Mahal (India) and St. Basil’s Cathedral (Russia)

*The painting Peasant Wedding by Brueghel and the painting Broadway Boogie Woogie by Mondrian

*The Lobster Tail and Fish Trap mobile by Alexander Calder

Second

Students will learn that...

* art can be about real life or fantasy

* some artists are self-taught

*colors are arranged on a color wheel

* art can be constructed to be three-dimensional or include fibers

* art can contain symbols

and lines have direction and dimension

Students will be looking at...

*The paintings of Henri Rousseau, Edward Hicks, and Horace Pippin

*The Totem Poles of Northwest Native Americans, The African Benin Masks

*The Architecture and Engineering of the Eiffel Tower and the Brooklyn Bridge

Third

Students will learn that...

*art uses pictorial balance and can look real

*artists can be trained in art schools

*groups can work together to create art and art can be about special people

*art can be symmetrical

*monuments are sculptural and architectural

Students will be looking at...

*The paintings of Auguste Renior, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, and Edgar Degas.

*Egyptian Art

(King Tutenkhamun’s Tomb, The Great Sphinx, and The Bust of Queen Nefertiti)

*The monuments: Stonehenge (England), Great Pyramids at Giza (Egypt), and Chichen Itza (Mexico)

Fourth

Students will learn that...

*basic shapes can be drawn as geometric forms

*in architecture "form can follow function"

*art can contain tactile and visual textures

*art can be public and private

*modern materials are used for modern sculpture and architecture

*2-D art includes land-, city-, and sea-scapes

Students will be looking at...

*The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, and I.M. Pei

*The sculptures of Claes Oldenburg and Louise Nevelson

*The paintings of Vincent Van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Hokusai, and Georges Seurat

Fifth

Students will learn that...

*art can be symbolic

*portraits in art can be realistic or abstract and in multiple images

*the proportions of the human figure and face can be learned and applied to art through contour and gesture drawing

*architecture can fit into the environment and can be built as a community

*art contains balance, unity and variety

Students will be looking at...

*The portrait paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, Diego Velasquez, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, and Henri Matisse.

*The sculptures of the Terra Cotta Army (China), the Great Buddha at Kamakura (Japan), and the artist Marisol Escobar

*The Architecture of Machu Picchu (Peru), Forbidden City(China), Mesa Verde(USA), and Arcosanti (Paolo Soleri, USA)

Sixth

Students will learn that...

*colors are organized based on specific theories of relatonships

*still life is a subject in art

*art can have radial balance

*there are elements of classical architecture and sculpture may be a part of architecture

*sculpture can be in the round or in the relief

*art may be decorative and used to enhance other things

*how we see art is affected by the artist’s intent and our perspective of the subject

Students will be looking at...

*The paintings of Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keefe, and Vincent Van Gogh.

*The Architecture of the Parthenon (Greece), the Villa Rotunda (Italy), and Monticello (by Thomas Jefferson in Virginia).

*The sculpture and relief sculpture of the Parthenon, the Descent of the River Ganges (India), and the Gates of Paradise (Italy).