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Art history Timeline for Elementary Art history Timeline for Elementary Students:Students:

A Comprehensive Year-Long Art A Comprehensive Year-Long Art History ProgramHistory Program

It’s Easy to Create Projects for Every Period

of Art History

• Prehistoric Art• Mesopotamia and

Sumerian

• Egyptian Art• Greek Art

• Roman Art

• Middle Ages• Renaissance• Post Renaissance /Baroque

• Impressionism

Your projects can meet the state and national goals and standards…

• Art Materials and process• Aesthetics (Includes structures &

functions, elements & principles)• Subjects/Themes• Art History/Cultures• Criticism/Evaluation• Interdisciplinary Connections

Choose your period of history…

Focus on the Materials and Processes

• PROCESS • MATERIALS TEMPERA WATERCOLOR CRAYON PENCIL/CHARCOAL PASTELS/OIL PASTELS CLAY PAPER SCULPTURE FIBERS METAL

PAINTING

DRAWING

SCULPTURE

CLAY/POTTERY

PRINTMAKING

CRAFTS

Plan the Lessons• Period of History…• Choose the grade level…• Decide on the process…• Select the materials….• Write the lesson plans.

PREHISTORIC ART• Large Chalk Drawings• Petroglyphs• Chalk Animal Drawings• Charcoal Drawing• Cave walls

Mesopotamia/Sumeria• Cuneiform writing• Design Sumerian

Crowns

EGYPTIAN ART• Sarcophagus Designs• Shawbti (Clay Mummy Sculptures)• Egyptian Tomb Drawings• Pyramids• Animal Sculptures• Cartouche and Hieroglyphs• Jewelry

– Scarabs

Egyptian Sarcophagus designs…

• Small Designs (12x18)• Large designs - Life-size • As a slab clay project• As a copper foil/tooling project• Pop up design/card• Shawbti, clay sculptures• Egyptian masks

Egyptian Sarcophagus designs…

• Small Designs (12x18)• Large designs - Life-size • As a slab clay project• As a copper foil/tooling project• Pop up design/card• Shawbti, clay sculptures• Egyptian masks

Greek Mythology

Illustrate the story of:• Icarus• Medusa• Gorgons• Cyclops

ROMAN ART• Roman Coins• Calendars• Theater Masks• Building with Arches• Mosaics

MIDDLE AGES• Stained Glass Windows• Illuminated Bookmarks and Books • Dragons • Knights and Armor• Kings and Queens• Tapestries

Renaissance• Perspective Drawings• Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions• Mona Lisa• Michelangelo

Drawing Hands, people and clothing• Albrecht Durer

Animal Drawings and Prints

POST RENAISSANCE• Dutch Painters

Rembrandt• Dutch Architecture• Baroque Furniture• Portraits and Self-Portraits

IMPRESSIONISTS• Landscape Painting• Seascape Painting

Time Lines

END OF THE YEAREND OF THE YEAREND OF THE YEAREND OF THE YEARKings and QueensKings and Queens

Cooperative group projectsCooperative group projects