HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES: Art Survey -- Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, poetry, film, mass-media, everyday.

Under the Poplars - Claude Monet The Kiss - Gustav Klimt Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dali

Starry Night, Van Gogh The Pipe Smoker, Paul Cézanne Under the Poplars, Claude Monet The Kiss, Gustav Klimt Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali

ArtLex Link 1000+ Sculptures Wikipedia Great Poets Link

Art Periods & Movements Architecture Link

A link to many other links (scroll up on this page. It links to the middle of the site)

ART HISTORY RESOURCES ON THE WEB: Contents

Italics indicates the subject material discussed in class; underline indicates in-class assignments or homework.

Scope and Sequence, with Idaho Achievement Standards: LiNk

Quarter 1/Semester 1

9-09: What is art? What is good art? Rules of thumb of good art. Prehistoric art. Homework assignment: Understanding Art.

9-11: The horse through time, prehistoric to modern. Styles and periods, the dynamism of art.

9-15: Review of periods, part 1: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism. Internet worksheet.

9-17: Review of periods, part 2: Impressionism, Postimpressionism, Expressionism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism. Internet worksheet.

9-21: Internet research: painters and their paintings. Review.

9-23: Introduction to perspective in drawing. Drawing single-point and double-point perspective cubes.

9-25: Review of painters and their paintings. Research essay: Identify an artists, explain their motives, and why you like their work.

9-29: No class. Homecoming rally.

10-05: Review of artists. Adding shadowing to two-point perspective drawing. Finish essays.

10-07: Review art and artists: justify responses. Begin interpretation of van Gogh's Starry Night.

10-09: Continue van Gogh project.

10-13: Finish student versions of "Starry Night;" complete a Pollock-style work.

10-15: Drawing exercises. Human form. Right brain vs. Left brain.

10-19: Test game. Exam for the previous section is Monday, 10-19. Introduction to sculpting.

10-21: Sculpture links: Renaissance; Baroque; Neoclassical; Impressionism. Begin pinch-pot sculpture.

10-23: How sculptures are made. Continue on sculpture project.

10-27: End of section test. Continue on project.

10-29: Internet research. Use Wikipedia. Here is a cool link: World's Tallest Statues.

11-04: Determining a sculpture's style/era through identifying clues. Finish first project.

11-09: What is plagiarism, and what it isn't. Madonna through the ages. Begin "Thinker" project.

11-11: No class (Veteran's Day Assembly)

11-17: Internet research: important architectural structures. Test review.

11-19: Introduction to Architecture section. What is an arch? What is a vault? Why are they used? Link #1; Link #2;

11-23: Sculpture Quiz.

11-25: Compare and contrast three architectural styles: Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance. Begin building project.

12-01: Compare and contrast three types of arches using legos. Continue on project.

12-03: The Greek Orders. Tour of Cathedrals. Review of important buildings from our study list. Continue on project.

12-07: Slide presentation of significant buildings: Westminster Abbey, Notre-Dame de Paris, Florence Cathedral, St. Peter's Basilica, Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Petra. Continue on project.

12-09: Slide presentation of significant structures: Angor Wat, Great Wall of China, Forbidden City, Chrysler Building, Empire State building, RCA building, Guggenheim Museums -- NY and Bilboa, Spain; Sears Tower, Space Needle, Sydney Opera House. Famous Architects worksheet.

12-11: Slide presentation. Work on projects.

12-15: Review architectural styles: Richardson Romanesque, Beaux Arts, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Neoclassical. Continue on project.

12-17: Review architectural styles: Prairie, Mission, Ranch, Bungalow, American Foursquare, Postmodern/Internationalism, Deconstructivist. Projects are due.

1-04: Test game.

1-06: Significant Building review game. Differences between Romanesque and Richardson Romanesque.

1-08: Begin new secion: Introduction to Poetry.

1-12: Architecture test.

1-14: Famous poets and poems. Poem research: LINK.

1-21: Create a haiku. Poetry analysis assignment.

1-25: Introduction to plays and playwrights. What is a good play? Aristotle's six elements of drama. Freytag's Triangle. Plot and other terms. Assignment: identify examples of types of plots.

Quarter 3/Semester 2