Hi everyone! I’ve been working on a fun unit study for next year! It’s called The World’s Greatest Artists Vol. 1 and I’m excited to share it here with you today!
Come along on our quest to learn about some of the world’s greatest artists! So grab some art supplies and get ready to explore, create, and learn!
In this series of artist studies, we will be learning about 8 of the world’s greatest artists. We will immerse ourselves in the work of each artist so we become well familiar with their style, methods, and images.
Each study includes:
- Lesson plans for each week
- Lap Book printables
- Artist Notebooking page
- Art Puzzles
- Artist Flashcards
Much of our time studying will be through open discussion and hands on experimentation. Upon completion of this curriculum you will be able to easily recognize the artwork from each artist studied, learn to look at art critically, as well as have gained an appreciation for art in general. You will also have explored some new techniques, and created several of your own unique masterpieces! And at the end you’ll have a wonderful Greatest Artists Lap Book to refer to!
Resources needed for this study include:
I highly recommend the Mike Venezia Books to go along with my curriculum, they are included in the lesson plans. The books are a fun addition and are perfect for younger kids!
If you would like to skip this additional cost, you can often find them at your local library, or you can do internet searches for each piece of art discussed as you go through the curriculum as well.
What Artists are included in Vol 1?
- Pablo Picasso
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Jackson Pollock
- Claude Monet
- Henry Matisse
- Georgia O’keefe
- Michelangelo
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Click here to get The World’s Greatest Artists Vol. 1 Unit Studies now! Hope you enjoy this curriculum!
About what grade level do you recommend The World’s Great Artists Unit Studies for? I volunter teach art at a small christian school and currently teach k5 thru 6th grade. I hope to at some point teach some of the upper grades and need matieral for that. The Abeka curriculum only goes up to 6th grade.
I’m using it with my Kindergartner, 2nd and 3rd graders. They’re all doing quite well with it. Since it’s art, it’s easy to teach several grades at once. For the older kids you can use the artist reports that are included, for the younger kids I just do everything through discussion.
Then obviously the art produced is of different skill level as well between the ages. For the older ones I think I’d just go into more detail on each of the artists, maybe assign some extra reading, or art projects per artist if you’re looking for more in depth study.
Hope that helps!
For some reason, I cannot get the curriculum to download. Do you have any suggestions? Or are there other links to get to it?
Thanks
Can you post a link to purchase the boks required for the study? I would be happy to go through your link if it helps you with any comission!
I just wanted to write and tell you we are LOVING the World’s Greatest Artist curriculum. The lessons are deep enough where I feel like my children and “getting” some meat and yet it doesn’t push them to the point of tears. We are all enjoying our study of the artists!
Your blog has been a huge blessing to me! This is my first year homeschooling and to say it’s been slightly overwhelming would be an understatment! But God called! Thanks for everything you have put together, it really has been a God-send!!!
THANK YOU for this wonderful resource you shared with all of us!!! My son & are a so enjoying using it as a record of our study & art =-) We just finished learning about Monet – I blogged about it & linked folks here & wanted to share it with you – http://livinglifeintentionally.blogspot.com/2012/01/famous-artist-monet.html
Any chance there is a Vol 2 coming out? I really want to do Seurat & love the staple book… or any chance you can put up a template of that? Sorry to bother you!
Thanks again!! There is a reason you are one of my top 2 go to sites!! =-)
Beth
I have been a visitor to your site for a few years now and somehow I missed the Artist Unit Study….wow! I just downloaded it and plan to use it next year….thanks so much for all your hard work!
This is fabulous … thanks for so generously sharing your wonderful materials! I featured your unit study as the Free Printable of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and featured your post in my post at http://livingmontessorinow.com/2012/01/26/montessori-inspired-art-appreciation/
Wow thanks so much for the artist study.
What are the names of the books listed as resources needed?
This is amazing! And you are amazing! Thank you so much for freely sharing this with all of us. It is such a blessing to find not only free material to use in our homeschooling, but such well thought-out and written material. THANK YOU!!!!!