Exploring Art Movements
Created By:
Lacey Rotier
Title/Role:
Graduate Student
Organization/School Name:
St. Catherine University
Location:
Minnesota
Grade Level:
11, 12 Type of Lesson:
Lesson in a unit Type of Schedule:
Flexible Collaboration Continuum:
Moderate Content Area:
The Arts Content Topic:
Researching art movements, artists, and their historical context. Scenario:
The art teacher came to the media specialist with an idea for a research project. The class is an elective art class and the art teacher would like to add a component working with art history. They come up with an idea for a semester-long project that incorporates research, art history, and studio art. Overview:
First students will be introduced to the concept of art movements in the classroom, with examples of each, and come to the library for an introduction to CAMIO. Then the students will go on a fieldtrip to a local art museum to look at the artwork. Students choose an artistic work and art movement to imitate and create their own version/interpretation. Final Product:
Students will create an artistic work reflecting a museum artwork. They will create a presentation that incorporates information on the art movement, artist, art piece, historical context, and how their work reflects the movement/artist/piece. The students create a portfolio with their process work (including visual studies, photographs, field notes from the museum, research notes, etc), reflection paper, and final piece. Library Lesson:
1. Using CAMIO (an ELM database) to search for artistic works in a time period or by an artist.
2. Researching an artist (biography).
3. Researching historical information.
4. Citing sources and presentation creation. Estimated Lesson Time:
30 minutes Have you taught this lesson before:
No Strategies for differentiation:
Student might focus on just the artist or the art movement.