Curriculum Map

2nd Grade

Recognizing types and forms of artwork

• Abstract vs. Realistic

• Painting

• Drawing

• Sculpture

• Photography

• Printmaking

• Portraits/Self-portraits

• Landscapes

• Still Life

Artist and Influences

• Van Gogh, Japanenese Prints “Great Wave at Kanagawa Nami Ura” and "Mt. Fuji in Clear Weather" by Hokusai

• Line quality, Texture, Pattern, Repetition

• Composition, use and placement of shapes and lines

Abstract Art – Life-like and abstract animals and landscape

Painting and sculptures: Paul Klee, Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Durer

• Landscapes: Cole, El Greco, Rousseau

• Personification, Foreground, Middle ground, background

Sculpture – realistic and abstract

• Discus Thrower

• Flying Horse

• The Bull's Head

• The Thinker

• Bird in Space

• Glass of Dale Chihuly

• Identifying height, width and depth

• Creating form from paper

• Color schemes and color relationships

World Architecture

Buildings

• Taj Mahal

• Parthenon

• Himeji Castle

• Great Stupa

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Architectural Elements:

• Arch

• Column

• Dome

• Symmetry/line of symmetry

• Form, Shape, Line quality, Placement, Emphasis

• Creating layers, inventing characters, settings and personality characteristics

Sculpey Project- Panda

• Manipulating Clay

• Personification

• Miniaturization

3rd Grade

Combine Light and Space in Artworks with shape to form:

• Look at artwork: Chapin, Rembrandt, Vermeer

• Exercises in value, shapes and shading to create forms

• Placement and overlap to create depth and space

• Look at Millet, Brueghel, Vermeer, Chapin, Cézanne

• Review color: Primary/Secondary

• Layering color, shading color and creating shadows

• Placement of shape and color to create balance and repetition in composition

How elements of art work together

• View art Cassatt, Matisse, Munch

• Create collages based on Matisse's "Goldfish"

• Introduce, size and scale relationships

• Work on cutting and gluing skills

• Using spacers to create relief space in composition

Native American Art

• Look at Navajo rugs and sand paintings

• Introduce/review weaving: warp and weft, over/under/alternate

• Work on fine motor coordination

• Look at Hopi Kachinas, Pottery and Sand Paintings

Figure/Ground relationship and balance and symmetry

• Look at Faith Ringgold

• Discuss motivations for art

• Look at Early American Quilts and M.C. Escher

• Look at symmetry, repeating designs, tessellating shapes

• Create tessellation: repeating pattern without negative space

• Creative association: turning shapes into objects

• Introduce colored pencil technique

• Review contrast

Sculpey Project: Teddy Bears

• Manipulating Clay

• Personification

• Miniaturization

4th Grade

African Art

• Look at fabrics and masks from Yoruba, Asante, Kuba, Ife, etc.

• Work on patterns, repetition, size, shape, spacing

• Silhouette animal and landscape elements

• Color relationships

Islamic Art and Architecture – religious basis, not by country or time period

Architecture – Mosque, Mausoleum, Memorial, Palace

• Blue Mosque, Dome of the Rock, Alhambra Palace, Taj Mahal

• Become familiar with the love story of the Taj Mahal

• Review and apply Bilateral Symmetry

• Review and apply Line of reflection/symmetry

• Become familiar with Architectural Elements: Minarets, domes, arches, reflecting pool

• Become familiar with and apply Perspective

• Create Gray scale, shading, contrast

• Apply Blending, texture

• Use of marker bleed

• Creating a paper diorama using pop up tabs, folding and gluing

Art – Tile designs, lack of portraiture, writing prayers into wall murals

• Tile Design

• Creating radial symmetry in a grid

• Complex design

Art of a New Nation - propaganda, symbols in American Portraiture

• Become familiar with some early American art and artists

• Become familiar with and create profile portraits

• Become familiar with and create parody using cartoon portraits for coin and stamp designs

Art of Ancient China

• Look at silk scrolls, calligraphy, symbols, dragons, porcelain, watercolor

• Work on calligraphy for bamboo, bushes, grass

• Work on symbols: cranes, evergreens, dragons, bamboo

• Watercolor wash

• Warm and cool

• Creating, tracing and cutting from a pattern

• Paper folding, curling, to create 3-D sculpture

Art of the Middle Ages in Europe

• Look at illuminated manuscripts, Book of Kells

• Look at Icons, Stained Glass, Gothic Cathedrals

• Bookmakers of the Middle Ages – scribe, rubricator, illuminator

• Overlapping, large images

• Watercolor in small shapes

• Creating covers and accordion fold pages

• Radial symmetry

Sculpey Project: Mice

• Manipulating Clay

• Personification

• Miniaturization

5th Grade

19th Century American Art

Artists: In what ways did 19th Century American Artists create uniquely American Art?

• Hudson River School Landscape Painters

• Genre Painters

• Commemorative Art of the Civil War

• Animals of America

• Printmakers – American Villages/Towns

• Landscape silhouette, color relationships and proportion

Color Theory

• Construct and populate a color wheel

• Identify primary, secondary and tertiary colors

• Mix secondary and tertiary from primary

• Identify tints, tones and shades

• Identify complementary color pairs

Native American Art

• Become familiar with Southwestern-Ancestral Pueblo art, artists and culture

• Review and create Pattern & Design, creating the illusion of form with placement

• Create the illusion of form through Shading

• Practice and apply Cutting and Gluing techniques

• Layering watercolor to create color and shading

• Background, middle ground and foreground creation in a landscape

Japanese Gardens

• Become Familiar with types of Japanese Gardens: Water Gardens, Zen Gardens

• Become familiar with the 36 Views of Mt. Fuji by Hokusai

• Apply paper folding/cutting for diorama construction

• Select human made and natural elements to create for garden scene

• Individualize garden with creative elements

• Marker Bleed, watercolor

Art of the Renaissance

• Become Familiar with the Italian Art & Artists of the Renaissance

• Become Familiar with the Northern Art & Artists of the Renaissance

• Review and apply Portraiture, feature placement and detail

• Review and apply perspective

Sculpey Project: Puppy Dogs

• Manipulating Clay

• Personification

• Miniaturization

6th Grade

Concentration on Drawing Skills

Contour drawing

• Detailed outlines of shapes and contours within

• Improving skills of observation-training the eye to look for details and the hand to draw them

History of Western Art

• Classical – Art of Ancient Greece and Rome

  • Architecture

  • Statues/Sculptures

  • Pottery/Urns

  • Human Proportion Figure drawing

  • Silhouettes and figure/ground relationship

• Gothic – Art of Medieval Europe

  • Primarily a French Architectural Movement

  • Illuminated Manuscripts

  • Icons

  • Cathedrals and their components

  • Collage and composition, repetition and placement to create balance

• Renaissance – Rebirth or Revival of Classical Art

  • Italian

  • Northern

  • Focus on Perspective

  • Colored Pencil Technique

  • Shading

• Baroque, Rococco, Neo-Classical, Romantic

• • Characteristics

  • Influences

  • Reaction/Responses to previous movements

  • Focus: Rococo

  • 3-D collage, colored pencil shading, realistic painting, paper folding and curling

• Realism

• • Characteristics and examples of the movement

  • Empty Chair Project: Creating a human presence in an empty room, setting mood

  • Using light and shadow to create form and mood

Sculpey: Pig

• Personification

• Manipulation of Clay

• Miniaturization

7th Grade

Impressionism

• Artists and style characteristics: Monet, Cassatt, Renoir, Degas

• Identifying Artists by characteristics of their painting style

• Color Theory/Color wheel

• Accurate enlargement drawing from a photo

Post-Impressionism

• Artists and style characteristics: Cézanne, van Gogh, Seurat

• Textures

• Dashes

• Small cubes

• Pointillism/Stippling

• Creating value through density

Modern Art Movements

Abstraction

• Cubism

• Fantasy

• De Stijl

• Symbolism

• Manipulating scale and size based on importance of symbols rather than laws of perspective

Surrealism

• Characteristics of the artists and movement: Dali, Magritte, Ernst

• Creating dreamlike reality through realistic representation of imaginary concepts

Modern American Painters

• Characteristics of the artists and art

• Parody and Propaganda

• Scale, placement, position, color to create composition

Sculpey Bunny

• Personification

• Clay Manipulation

• Miniaturization

8th Grade

Abstract Expressionism

• Action Painting

• Color Field Painting

• Compositional Elements

• Watercolor Techniques

• Creating Abstract Expressionist Paintings

20th Century Architecture

• Impact of Industrial Revolution

• Advent of Skyscraper

• Various Architects

• Frank Lloyd Wright

• International Style

• Bauhaus

• 2-Point perspective

• Drafting/design with drawing tools

• Watercolor technique

20th Century Photography

• Pioneers in Photography

• Photojournalism

• Photographic manipulation

• Photograms

• Photo Montage

20th Century Sculpture

• Human Form and Pop Art

• Art & Artists

• Abstraction/simplification

• Human proportion

• Bending, folding and curling paper to create volume

Architecture Revisited

• Modern castles vs. historical functional castles

• Selecting and visualizing 3-D themes

• Envisioning and creating environments

Sculpey Penguin

• Personification

• Clay manipulation

• Miniaturization