*Art History Workbook for Middle School Art; Famous Artists - Art Hist Units -10
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Easily teach students about visual art and some of the most famous artists of all time. Easy to use worksheets take students through a biography of each artist, video links with more information, coloring activities, an analysis of artist's work, projects and extension activities. This workbook includes over 200 pages of art history for your students.
See individual artist packets on my store for detailed preview of what is inside each artist unit. If you need individual artist packets with separate teacher/student versions, you will be better off with the separate artist workbook bundles here: Art History Workbook Bundle 1 and Art History Workbook Bundle 2
10 Artist Units that each include:
- Topics covered and Materials list
- An 8” x 10” poster of artist or artwork
- Artist biography sheet
- Teacher instructions
- More resources sheets/videos
- Art analysis
- Coloring pages of each artist
- 2 student projects for each artist
- Extension activities for each artist
- Examples of student work
- The hand, the brain, the spirit and practice rubric
- Teacher answer keys for art analysis sheets are at the back of the workbook
Artists Covered:
- Paul Cezanne
- Georges Seurat
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Pablo Picasso
- Gustav Klimt
- Paul Klee
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Keith Haring
Art Periods Covered:
- Art Nouveau or Symbolism (Klimt)
- Post-Impressionism (van Gogh)
- Romanticism/Modern Art (Cézanne/O’Keeffe)
- Pointillism (Seurat)
- Expressionism/Surrealism (Klee)
- Pop Art (Lichtenstein)
- Social Change Art (Haring)
- Cubism (Picasso)
- Abstract Expressionism (Kandinsky)
This 205 page art history workbook is made for homeschoolers, the TAB art room and busy teachers who want to be successful teaching art history to upper elementary and middle school art students. This workbook truly does make teaching art history easy for people with little to no art background.
How to Organize:
This visual art student workbook is a digital download and is one PDF document that can be printed in grayscale or color, hole punched, then compiled into a three ring binder. The keys are located at the back of the ebook and should be kept out for your own use. Each artist has a poster included so it can be used to denote the end of each artist unit in the workbook.
TpT EASEL:
Use Tpt Easel to easily assign individual pages or packets!
No experience teaching art is necessary.
Ways to use in the homeschool classroom:
- As an introduction to a famous artist and their work.
- To teach national visual arts standards including Creating; Responding; Connecting and Presenting.
- To teach drawing and painting skills.
- To teach a variety of media including: Watercolor, Acrylic Paint, Oil Pastel, Colored Pencil, Graphite and Chalk.
Ways to use in the visual art classroom:
- A supplement to other materials and lessons.
- Art analysis
- Early finisher work or Art History TAB stations.
- A Quick sub lesson.
Best suited for grades 5-8, but can be taught to younger and older students as well.
Visual Art Portfolio
The binder is a great place to keep student work and when complete shows the students growth over time. At the end of the workbook conducting a portfolio review can be a meaningful and valuable experience for the student and it is also a great way to show other kids and family members.
Don’t want to print color copies? Allow students to open PDF file from a google drive on their computers to view colored versions of artwork or project the example using a document camera.
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For detailed preview of each artist visit individual artist packets here:
Art History Workbook Bundle 1: Picasso, Lichtenstein, OKeeffe, Kandinsky, Haring
Art History Workbook Bundle 2 - Klimt, van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat, Klee
**This product is a one document, workbook version of my art history workbooks listed below. Consider it just a larger bundle of all 10 artists, hence the discount!**Art History Workbook Bundle 1 and Art History Workbook Bundle 2
Visual Art: Creating:
Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.
Demonstrate persistence in developing skills with various materials, methods, and approaches in creating works of art or design.
Choose from a range of materials and methods of traditional and contemporary artistic practices to plan works of art.
Visual Art: Presenting:
Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.
Analyze and describe the impact that an exhibition or collection has on personal awareness of social, cultural, or political beliefs and understandings.
Visual Art: Connecting:
Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
Distinguish different ways art is used to represent, establish, reinforce, and reflect group identity.
Document the process of developing ideas from early stages to fully elaborated ideas.
Describe how knowledge of culture, traditions, and history may influence personal responses to art.
Visual Art: Responding:
Interpret art by analyzing art making approaches, the characteristics of form and structure, relevant contextual information, subject matter, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.
Construct evaluations of a work of art or collection of works based on differing sets of criteria.
Interpret an artwork or collection of works, supported by relevant and sufficient evidence found in the work.
Art history for middle school, Art history for kids
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The work contained in this art history workbook for kids includes artists: Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, and Paul Klee is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. All line artwork was created by Sabrina Wingren using artist’s work as reference. The line drawings contained in this resource for Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe, Roy Lichtenstein, and Keith Haring were created by Sabrina Wingren in the style of the artist. Art history workbook for kids and art history for homeschoolers. Top 100 visual art resources and art history for tab teachers. Art History for Elementary Bundle (10 Art Units with Teacher Instructions. Any student artwork included is used with express permission. ©2017, 2018, 2019 A Space to Create Art, LLC. Sabrina Wingren. All rights reserved. Not intended for resale or sharing online without permission.
