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Artist Studies
I love artist studies. We usually keep them short, one to two days, and attempt to recreate the artwork of the artist or their style. This often means we create truly unique art, but it’s so much fun. I thought it would be helpful for all of you to collect all of our Artist Studies into one place, and then I asked a few friends to share their studies as well. All in all this is a great set of history lessons you can work into several different units.
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I’m going to loosely break up these artist studies, and art styles into different time periods. That’s probably the easiest method for this.
Here are some curriculum we’ve used over the years
I’ve tried a few different places to find good artist studies, and so let’s take a look at which ones we’ve tried so far:
- Mixing with the Masters review
- Zeezok Music curriculum review– this is a music appreciation curriculum, but you’re studying different composers
- Everyday Graces artist lessons
- I know there are a few other art history curriculums I’ve used, but I’m not finding them right this second, so as I find more I will update.
I’ll also add that just going to art museums can be a great jumping-off point, not to mention just how cool they are
Ancient artist studies
In this time period it’s not so much artist studies as studies of different art styles, also I only have a few, like three.
- Cave painting at Lascaux lesson
- Fresco art style lesson
- mosaic art style lesson
- King Tut’s funerary art
Middle ages artist studies
Again, I do not have many from this time period, actually, most of them are more art styles, in particular one that led to a religious schism.
Renaissance artist studies
For most laymen, and I am most decidedly a layman when it comes to art history, this is the time period when we really start to become aware of, and know about art.
- Raphael artist study
- Titian artist study
- Michelangelo art history lesson
- Queen Elizabeth portrait lesson
Clearly, I need to finish putting out our various Renaissance artist studies, because I know I have more of these…
Modern history artist studies
Modern history starts somewhere in the 1700s, according to most divisions of time people have. That means modern history encompasses a lot of different art styles. It is also the time period I have the most artists for, which is ironic because I don’t like “Modern art”.
- Grant Wood artist study
- Henri Matisse artist study
- Vincent VanGogh artist study
- Henri Rousseau artist study
- Chagall artist study
- Klimt artist study
- Edvard Munch artist study
- Diego Rivera
- Frida Kahlo artist study
- Pablo Picasso artist study
I’m not the only one studying artists with my kids
I asked around for people to let me know what they’ve done with their kids, so here are some other people’s studies.
- Starry Night study
- Mondrian STEAM play– a new artist I don’t know
- Kadinsky Circles
- Modern artists
- Paul Klee artist study– another new-to-me artist
- 1st grade art curriculum
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