Draw and Explore Art: Famous Artists & Their Paintings Set

Description

Combine art and drawing with these units on famous artists and famous works of art. Students learn from a short background of each artist or painting and practice copying each artist’s portrait or each famous painting on grids. (In Draw & Explore Art: Famous Paintings, some images are more simplified than others, so a range of simpler and harder images is included.) Review questions and answer keys are also included. See a preview of each title at the links below.

Draw and Explore Art: Famous Artists: The Draw and Explore Art series is a great way to combine art and drawing. A short biography of ten different artists is given. Each is followed by an image of the artist on a grid. Next, students can do one or all of the assignments that follow. They can draw half of the image in a grid that shows the left half of the picture, half of the image in a grid that shows the right half of the picture, or the entire image on an empty grid. This makes the unit completely flexible for both left-handed and right-handed students. Ten review questions and an answer key are also included. Artists included are Michelangelo; Pieter Bruegel, the Elder; Benjamin West; Charles Willson Peale; Winslow Homer; Claude Monet; Henri Rousseau; Mary Cassatt; Paul Gauguin; and Charles Marion Russell. 31 pages total. Ages 8-13.

Draw and Explore Art: Famous Paintings: The Draw and Explore Art series is a great way to combine art and drawing. A short background of each painting and its artist is given. Each is followed by a simplified image of the painting on a grid. (Some images are more simplified than others, so a range of simpler and harder images is included.) Next, students can do one or all of the assignments that follow. They can draw half of the image in a grid that shows the left half of the picture, half of the image in a grid that shows the right half of the picture, or the entire image on an empty grid. This makes the unit completely flexible for both left-handed and right-handed students. Ten review questions and an answer key are also included. Famous paintings included are A Young Girl Reading (Jean-Honore Fragonard), American Gothic (Grant Wood), Blue Horse I (Franz Marc), The Milkmaid (Johannes Vermeer), Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci), The Scream (Edvard Munch), The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh), The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (Rembrandt), Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat), and Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze). 31 pages total. Ages 8-13.