ARTED 478 Art History Lesson Plan

Enduring Ideas

Identity

Possible Artists

Kehinde Wiley, Rembrandt, Monet, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Anshutz, Caravaggio, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh

Key Concepts

How clothing and surroundings effect people. How art has changed over time.

Essential Questions

Why is this time period/artist important? What do the peoples clothing/ scenery make you think of? What do these things imply?

Unit Objectives

Students will have the opportunity to view a wide range of artists and better understand how clothing affects how people are perceived.

Instructional Plan

Students would work in groups and choose an artist from the list or the available books. They will have the opportunity to do some research to choose a piece and talk as a group about what is happening in the piece and why it is significant. The students will then create some kind of representation, whether it is dressing up as parts of the painting or artists, collage, or painting. The only restriction for the presentation is no power points are allowed. They will be required to share what time period this artist is from with some historical context and how that appears in the work. As students are working in groups I will go around and have small discussions with them about why they were drawn to that piece. We will discuss what makes it art and about the clothing and scenery choices made by the artist.

Assessment

Students will be graded on how they worked together as a group and the quality of the presentation. They will also be assessed through how much they participated in our smaller discussions and the class discussion at the end of the lesson.