Welcome to Our Homeschool Art History Curriculum: Discovering Art History

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Getting Started with Discovering Art History, Our Homeschool Art History Curriculum

This homeschool art history curriculum helps students learn to group paintings or other artwork by style, subject, or artist and introduces several different careers in the field of art. Discovering Art History first teaches students about various styles and artists and then offers the opportunity for homeschool students to practice each style learned. Numerous art-related books available through many libraries are also suggested to enhance learning.

Overview

9 weeks, 5 days a week
Includes text-based lessons, printable file of images, suggested reading list, and links to additional information
Grades 4-5

Supplies Needed

Corresponding lessons on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; corresponding artwork on SchoolhouseTeachers.com; sketchbook; additional supplies as indicated for each project

What to Do

Go to Class Lessons and download the lesson plan, coursework file, and artwork file. Start with the Day 1 reading assignment. Follow the instructions each day on the lesson plan and check them off when completed.

Course Outline for Discovering Art History, Our Homeschool Art History Curriculum

Nine weekly homeschool art history curriculum lessons introduce elementary homeschool students to various artists, styles, and careers in the field of art.

Week One: Guiseppe Arcimboldo and Mannerism
Week Two: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Naturalism
Week Three: John Singleton Copley, Benjamin West, and Neoclassicism
Week Four: Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt, and Impressionism
Week Five: Impressionism (cont.), Paul Cezanne, and Post-Impressionism
Week Six: Henri Rousseau and Post-Impressionism (cont.)
Week Seven: Georges Seurat and Pointillism; Introduction to American Regionalism
Week Eight: Grant Wood, Norman Rockwell, and American Regionalism; Georgia O’Keeffe and Introduction to Modernism
Week Nine: Pop Art, Cubism, and Surrealism

Course Sample for Discovering Art History, Our Homeschool Art History Curriculum

Hello, students and parents!

Welcome to Discovering Art History, a 9-week homeschool art history course that will help you learn to group paintings or other artwork by style, subject, or artist. I would also like for you to learn about different careers in the arts, in case you’re interested in taking your art to that level when you’re older. Each week or so, you will learn about a different artist or style of art and get to practice that style.

One of the fun things about doing art is creativity. Do you have a lot of creativity? This course will be a good way to expand your creativity. Feel free to tweak projects and change things up to make this your course.

While you’re enjoying this homeschool art history curriculum, plan to visit art museums in your area, learn how to sew or knit, take pictures, make patterns, arrange flowers, visit a ceramics shop, analyze illustrations in picture books and illustrate your own writing, pay attention to packaging, and notice how art is used in fashion and advertising. In short, pay attention to the art around you and widen your scope. Art is more than just brushes and canvas, though we will be focusing mostly on art of that sort in this class. Remember: art is all around you. Above all, have fun!

Sincerely, Carla Earley

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More About Discovering Art History, Our Homeschool Art History Curriculum

This homeschool art history curriculum introduces elementary students to naturalism, mannerism, neoclassicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism, pointillism, post-impressionism, cubism, futurism, surrealism, American regionalism, abstract expressionism, modernism, pop art, and postmodernism. Discovering Art History lessons also cover several key artists including Mary Cassatt, Norman Rockwell, Grant Wood, Georges Seurat, John Singleton Copley, Henri Rousseau, Paul Cezanne, Georgia O’Keeffe, Claude Monet, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Benjamin West.

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