What other artists should I teach about?

Question

I want to give my son a well rounded appreciation of the arts when we homeschool, so he will be having an art class. (Plus it's a requirement for KY core content guidelines) anyway, so far I have lessons on Picasso and cubism, Impressionists, Renoir, Surrealism, Salvador Dali (even though I don't like him, my son should at least have a passing knowledge of him) and Rembrandt. What other artists should I touch upon?

Answer 1

I don't know how old your son is and this may seem kind of beneath his age, but Baby Einstein has a book called "The ABC's of Art".  Each page shows a different work of art whose subject is related to a letter of the alphabet.  It uses a mix of classical and modern artists.  The questions in the book would be to babyish, but it has a good variety of art with the artists name and year.  It could be a jumping off point.

I don't know where you are in Kentucky, but you could try to make the trip to Louisville to visit the Speed Art Museum and Kentucky Center for the Arts, which has some interesting sculpture pieces in the main lobby.  Some of the universities have smaller galleries for student art, such as Western Kentucky University.  And I have heard that Paducah has drawn a lot of artists who have formed a community involved in textile arts.

I am originally from Kentucky, and the art class requirement must relatively new.  Or otherwise my school considered coloring pictures as filling the requirement.  ;-)

Answer 2

You didn't mention any of the Renaissance artists like Michelangelo, Da Vinci, etc.  Also, you may want to teach about some modern artists like Warhol and Basquiat.

Answer 3

frida kahlo

diego rivera

van gogh

edvard munch

da vinci

michael angelo

Answer 4

Picasso.

You might want to get into Grandma Moses but I don't like her or her art myself.

Answer 5

If this is just for one year, that's probably plenty!

Answer 6

van gough?

Answer 7

Some other periods/movements and some corresponding artists:

Greco-Roman

Early Medieval

Gothic

Baroque - Caravaggio/Carracci/Hals

Roccocco - Watteau

Neo-Classicism - Jacques-Louis David

Romanticism - Turner/Wiertz

Pre-Raphaelite - Leighton/Hunt/Waterhouse

(This is by no means a complete list but maybe an idea of some of the major periods you don't seem to have on your list.)

Also - a brief overview of Middle-Eastern and Asian art as these aren't typically covered in our western art history classes.

Some really great sites for resources:

http://ewart.sbc.edu/

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

Hope these help somewhat - sounds like a lot of fun! Good Luck!

Answer 8

Try the Mike Venezia book series, "Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists".  Your library should have at least a few.

http://www.mikevenezia.com/mikevenezia/

Here are the artists we've studied:

All the ones you listed, plus:

Henri Matisse

Grant Wood

Diego Rivera

Georgia O'Keefe

Louis Comfort Tiffany

Helen Frankenthaler

Andy Warhol

Vincent Van  Gogh

Claude Monet

Edgar Degas

Paul Gauguin

Paul Cezanne

Pieter Brueghel

Albrecht Durer

Edward Hopper

Jacob Lawrence

Jan Vermeer

Sofonisba Anguissola

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Mary Cassat

Donatello

Winslow Homer

Marisol

Faith Ringgold

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Giotto

Grandma Moses

Rembrant Peale

James Audubon

Frederic Church

Paul Klee

Frank Lloyd Wright

...and many more

Also we study architecture and ancient art from around the world and native americans.

Answer 9

The Rainbow Resource catalog has a ton of series' of great artists.  At one time, I had used these to create a list.  You might also check what Ambleside Online (A Charlotte Mason "curriculum") has.  They study different artists every "quarter" and have previous and future lists on their site here: http://amblesideonline.org/ArtSch.shtml