"ARTIST OF THE WEEK" contains information, images, and photos for a special artist or art topic each week, for TWO school years. However, we are in the process of adding a third year this school year. We hope you will find this a valuable tool as you digitally take students to see and learn about the many forms art may take and about famous artists who mastered those forms!
Third Year The 3rd year has a different art focus each nine weeks.
1st Nine Weeks - Purposes and Reasons for Art
August 14th - August 23rd Art serves as a record of things that happened August 26 - August 30th Art with a religious purpose
Sept. 3 - Sept. 6 Art with a social or political message Sept. 4 Art with a social or political message Sculptures with a message
Sept. 5 Art with a social or political message Street Art with a message
Sept 6. Art with a social or political message Installation art with a message
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Sept. 9 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific drawing Sept. 10 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature John James Audubon’s Birds of America
Sept. 11 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Maria Merian
Sept. 12 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Beatrix Potter
Sept. 13 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature (didn’t do) Andy Goldsworthy
Sept. 16 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Wildlife Art - Robert Bateman
Sept. 17 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Wildlife Art - Duck stamp art
Sept. 18 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Environmental Art
Sept. 19 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Ocean Art
Sept. 20 Art for the purpose of Science or Nature Space Art
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Sept. 23 Art for expressing emotion Vincent Van Gogh & Expressionism
Sept. 24 Art for Expressing Emotion Examples
Sept. 25 Art for Expressing Emotion Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods
Sept. 26 Art for Expressing Emotion Examples using a Subject to express Emotion
Sept. 27 Art for Expressing Emotion Abstract Expressionism Kandinsky Pollack Rothko
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Sept. 30 Art that shares Beauty Impressionists Renoir Mary Cassatt Monet
Oct. 1 Art that shows the Beauty of nature Georgia O’Keeffe flowers Thomas Cole & Hudson River School Albert Bierstadt
Oct. 2 Art featuring a Beauty of women and children Fragonard John William Waterhouse John Singer Sargent William-Adolphe Bouguereau Gustave Klimt
Oct. 3 Art creating Beauty in the Useful Arts William Morris textiles Paris subways - Art Nouveau Louis Tiffany - stained glass lamps Antoni Gaudi - Casa Batllo
Oct. 4 Art produces reactions or can be used for experimenting Art can be ugly - Francis Bacon Art can be about experimenting - Robert Rauschenberg Art can have humor - Donald Lipski Art can create questions and stir curiosity - M.C. Escher ………………………………………………………………………………… Oct. 7 - 11 Review of purposes that art serves
……………………………………………………………………………………………….. 2nd Nine Weeks - Artists
Oct. 14 Baroque introduction
Oct. 15 Artemisia Gentileschi
Oct. 16 Artemisia Gentileschi
Oct. 17 Baroque architecture and interiors
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Oct. 28 Peter Paul Rubens
Oct. 29 Peter Paul Rubens Studio, types of paintings
Oct. 30 Peter Paul Rubens Painted for the Church
Oct. 31 Halloween Amazing carved pumpkins
Nov. 1 Peter Paul Rubens Painted portraits ……………………………………………………………………………….