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Getting Started with Our Art Appreciation: South African Art For Kids Homeschool Course

This African art for kids homeschool course focuses on eighteen South African artists from the 19th-21st centuries. Art appreciation lessons begin by asking, “How do we look at art?” then go on to explore the language and elements of art such as line, shape, mass, light, shade, space, texture, and color, as well as aspects of composition such as rhythm, focal points, and balance. These African art for kids lessons can be completed in any order. Students may wish to study the entire eighteen homeschool art lessons or pick and choose artists and styles that interest them most. The Art Appreciation: South African Art course is designed for ages 6-12 but may also be enjoyed by older students who are looking for an introduction to art appreciation.

Overview

18 weeks, 1 day a week
Includes downloadable text-based lessons with images
Grades 4th-7th

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; journal for notetaking

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan, as well as the lesson file for the selected artist or complete lesson file. Start with the Day 1 assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Outline for Our Art Appreciation: South African Art For Kids Homeschool Course

Eighteen African art for kids lessons introduce homeschool students to notable South African artists of the 19th-21st centuries, along with elements of art and aspects of composition.

Lesson 1 – Walter Battiss
Lesson 2 – Esther Mahlangu
Lesson 3 – William Kentridge
Lesson 4 – Cecil Skotnes
Lesson 5 – Maggie Laubser
Lesson 6 – Vetkat Kruiper and Joao Dikuanga
Lesson 7 – Hanneke Benade
Lesson 8 – Willie Bester
Lesson 9 – Jan Van Der Merwe
Lesson 10 – Irma Stern
Lesson 11 – Helen Martins
Lesson 12 – Roger Ballen
Lesson 13 – Strijdom Van Der Merwe
Lesson 14 – Sibonelo Chiliza
Lesson 15 – Zakkie Eloff
Lesson 16 – J.H. Pierneef
Lesson 17 – Bonnie Ntshalintshali
Lesson 18 – Gerard Sekoto

Course Sample for Our Art Appreciation: South African Art For Kids Homeschool Course

How do we LOOK AT AFRICAN ART FOR KIDS?

We start by asking simple questions like: who is the artist, when and where did he or she live and create the artwork, what is the subject matter and what is the medium? Having that as basics we can move on to analyze the work itself according to the art appreciation vocabulary.

GETTING TO KNOW THE ELEMENTS OF AFRICAN ART

What then is the LANGUAGE or ELEMENTS of ART? We look at line, shape and mass, light and shade, space, texture and color. Each of these, in turn, have their own vocabulary:

LINE: defines the edge of a shape. It is the path left by a moving point. Line in itself is not found in nature, but it is essential for depicting objects or defining shapes.

SHAPE and MASS: is the area enclosed by a line. Shape also refers to circles, triangles, squares and rectangles. The mass or volume of a shape can be defined by light falling on the shape.

LIGHT and SHADE: refers to tonal values. It is the lightness or darkness of an object or area.

SPACE: in real life is 3-dimensional. Perspective is used to imitate this real space on a 2-dimensional surface. There is also positive space which is the object and negative space which is the space around the object. Sculpture on the other hand, is 3-dimensional because it has height, width and depth giving us the chance to walk around it.

TEXTURE: is the quality of an object through touch (actual, real, tactile texture) or the quality of an object through implementing the elements (implied or visual texture).

COLOR: is powerful, complex and appealing. It has three characteristics: HUE is the name of the color (red, blue etc). VALUE refers to how light or dark a color is. INTENSITY describes how bright or dull a color is. Warm colors include yellows and reds. Cool colors include blues and greens. Although color is impressive, many art forms lacks the use of it but are still regarded as powerful works of art; for example black-and-white films, etchings, drawings and sculpture.

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More About Our Art Appreciation: South African Art For Kids Homeschool Course

Using African art for kids as the basis for art appreciation study, homeschool students start by asking simple questions like: Who is the artist? When and where did he or she live and create the artwork? What is the subject matter? and What is the medium?

Having the basics, students move on to analyze the work itself according to the art appreciation vocabulary. What then is the language of art? Enjoy a journey to discover the answer with these African art for kids homeschool lessons.

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