Art Curriculum
The first few weeks of school we focus on the rules in the art room and getting to know each other.
Trimester 1
Unit 1 - Making Your Mark as an Artist
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Trimester 2
Unit 4 Drawing - Pre-Modern
K - Grant Wood - Landscape/Horizon Line
1st - Grandma Moses - Depth - Foreground, Middle Ground, Background of a Landscape
2nd - Pieter Brueghel - Atmospheric Perspective
3rd - Paul Cezanne - Shading and Value
4th - Renaissance and 1-point perspective
5th - Leonardo Da Vinci - Sketchbooks
Unit 5 - Weaving
K - South African Bambulina Hangings
1st - Native American Basketry
2nd - Guatemalan Weaving
3rd - Ashanti Kente Cloth
4th - Navajo Blanket Weaving
5th - Coiled Basketry
Unit 6 Asian Art
K - Chinese Handmade Paper and Scrolls
1st - Origami and folded Fans
2nd - Asian Sumi-ee Brushstroke painting
3rd - Indian Twirling Puppets
4th - Chinese Dragon Illustrations
5th - Mandala Designs
Unit 7 - Impressionism/Post Impressionism
K - Artists Impression of Light - Weather!
1st - Claude Monet - Cool and Warm Colors
2nd - Vincent Van Gogh - Still Life
3rd - Mary Cassett and Pierre Renior - Portraits
4th - Georges Seurat - Pointillism
5th - Impressionism Review
Unit 8 Modern Art
K - George Rodrique Arbitrary Color
1st - Henri Matisse - Positive/Negative Space and shapes
2nd - Eric Carle - Book Illustrations
3rd - Georgia O'Keeffe
4th - Pablo Picasso - Cubism
5th - Romare Bearden - Collage
Unit 9 - Printmaking
K - Gyotaku - Fish Printing
1st - Marc Chagall - I and the Village
2nd - Paul Klee
3rd - Hokusai - Castle Prints
4th - Albrecht Durer - Animals
5th Roy Lichtenstein - Pop Art and Cartooning
Unit 10 - Alternative Media
K - Tibetan Sand Painting
1st - Henri Rousseau - Jungles
2nd - Andre DeRain - Scratch Art Bridges
3rd - Faith Ringgold - Quilting
4th - Tiffany/Wright - Stain Glass
5th Folk Art - Metal Foil Tooling
Unit 11 - Sculpture
K - Russian Matryoshka Dolls - Toy designs
1st - Frank Lloyd Wright - Architecture
2nd - Deborah Butterfield - Found Object Relief's
3rd - Oaxacan Paper Mache Animals
4th - Alexander Calder - Wire Figures
5th - Northwest Coastal Masks/African Bakuba Masks
Unit 12 - Computer
Technology is being introduced throughout the art program here at CCSD#93 in a number of ways. The lessons listed below are taught as time allows and available resources.
K - Piet Mondrian - Horizontal/vertical lines
1st - Joan Miro - Drawing from your dreams
2nd - Paul Klee - Animal Tricks
3rd - Flag Design - Meaning in color and Shapes
4th - Pablo Picasso - cubist Landscape
5th - Toulouse La Trech - Poster Designs