Drawing Prompts inspired by Art History

Drawing Prompts inspired by Art History

These innovative art cards are appropriate for all age levels and all levels of art skill! On the front, each card has an image from art history and a color-coded label to designate the time period that the artwork is from.

On the back, there is a short description of the artwork and a fun drawing prompt related to the art history artwork! The back also contains information about the artwork including an Image #, Time Period, Title, Artist, Year and Location.

This 29 card document includes the below inventory from art history from time periods and is intended to expose students to art through the ages and focus on the past 123 years.

3 cards from 70,000 BCE-500 CE

4 cards from 500-1400

2 cards from 1400-1600

3 cards from 1600-1800

2 cards from 1800-1900

15 cards from 1900-Present

This document also contains art cards with detailed instructions for self-guided learning and art cards with the elements and principles of art.

These art cards were created to enhance the art curriculum at my son's school. We laminated the cards and filed them by time period in a wooden greeting card organizer for classroom ease!

This document is intended to be printed double-sided and trimmed along the white designated line so the two art cards on each page are separated.