The Year at a Glance
In Fifth Grade the children will have about five, forty minute lessons a month in which all kinds of art will be experienced. There will be an opportunity in the Fall to purchase items from Original Works.
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DecemberRenaissance Portraits
MarchOp Art
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JanuaryFigures In Art
April19th Century Landscapes
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FebruaryGeometry In Art
MayDesign In Art
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Fifth Grade Core Knowledge Art Program
In fifth grade our lessons illustrate important elements of making and appreciating art and emphasize important artists, works of art and artistic concepts. When appropriate, topics in art may be linked to topics in other disciplines. While the following guidelines specify a variety of artworks in different media and from various cultures they are not intended to be comprehensive. We build upon the core content and expose the children to a wide variety of art and artists
In studying the following works of art and creating their own art, students will review, develop and apply concepts introduced in previous grades, such as line, shape, color, form, light, texture, space, design and symmetry.
Art of the Renaissance
The shift in world view from medieval to Renaissance art, a new emphasis on humanity and the natural world
The influence of Greek and Roman art on Renaissance artists (classical subject matter, idealization of human form, balance and proportion)
The development of linear perspective during the Italian RenaissanceThe vantage point or point of view of the viewer
Convergence of line toward a vanishing point, the horizon line
Observe and discuss works in different genres – such as portrait, fresco, Madonna – by Italian Renaissance artists, includingSandro Boticelli, the Birth of Venus
Leonardo da Vinci: The Proportions of Man, Mona Lisa, the Last Supper
Michelangelo: Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, especially the detail known as The Creation of Adam
Raphael: The Marriage of the Virgin, examples of Madonnas (such as Madonna with Child with the Infant Saint John, the Alba Madonna, or the small Cowper Madonna)
Become familiar with Renaissance sculpture, includingDonatello, Saint George
Michelangelo, David
Become familiar with Renaissance architecture, includingThe Florence Cathedral, dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi
St. Peter’s in Rome
Observe and discuss paintings of the Northern Renaissance, including Pieter Bruegel, Peasant WeddingAlbrecht Durer, self portrait (such as from1498 – 1500)
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfoni and His Wife (also known as Arnolfoni Wedding)
American Art: Nineteenth – Century United States
Become familiar with the Hudson River School of landscape painting, including Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (The Connecticut River Near Northampton) (also known as View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm) Albert Bierstadt, Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Become familiar with genre paintings, including George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
William Sidney Mount, Eel Spearing at Setauket
Become familiar with the art of the Civil War, including Civil War photography of Mathew Brady and his colleaguesThe Shaw Memorial sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Become familiar with popular prints by Currier and Ives
Art of Japan
Become familiar withThe Great Buddha (also known as the Kamakura Buddha)
Landscape Gardens
In fifth grade our lessons illustrate important elements of making and appreciating art and emphasize important artists, works of art and artistic concepts. When appropriate, topics in art may be linked to topics in other disciplines. While the following guidelines specify a variety of artworks in different media and from various cultures they are not intended to be comprehensive. We build upon the core content and expose the children to a wide variety of art and artists
In studying the following works of art and creating their own art, students will review, develop and apply concepts introduced in previous grades, such as line, shape, color, form, light, texture, space, design and symmetry.
Art of the Renaissance
The shift in world view from medieval to Renaissance art, a new emphasis on humanity and the natural world
The influence of Greek and Roman art on Renaissance artists (classical subject matter, idealization of human form, balance and proportion)
The development of linear perspective during the Italian RenaissanceThe vantage point or point of view of the viewer
Convergence of line toward a vanishing point, the horizon line
Observe and discuss works in different genres – such as portrait, fresco, Madonna – by Italian Renaissance artists, includingSandro Boticelli, the Birth of Venus
Leonardo da Vinci: The Proportions of Man, Mona Lisa, the Last Supper
Michelangelo: Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, especially the detail known as The Creation of Adam
Raphael: The Marriage of the Virgin, examples of Madonnas (such as Madonna with Child with the Infant Saint John, the Alba Madonna, or the small Cowper Madonna)
Become familiar with Renaissance sculpture, includingDonatello, Saint George
Michelangelo, David
Become familiar with Renaissance architecture, includingThe Florence Cathedral, dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi
St. Peter’s in Rome
Observe and discuss paintings of the Northern Renaissance, including Pieter Bruegel, Peasant WeddingAlbrecht Durer, self portrait (such as from1498 – 1500)
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfoni and His Wife (also known as Arnolfoni Wedding)
American Art: Nineteenth – Century United States
Become familiar with the Hudson River School of landscape painting, including Thomas Cole, The Oxbow (The Connecticut River Near Northampton) (also known as View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm) Albert Bierstadt, Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Become familiar with genre paintings, including George Caleb Bingham, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
William Sidney Mount, Eel Spearing at Setauket
Become familiar with the art of the Civil War, including Civil War photography of Mathew Brady and his colleaguesThe Shaw Memorial sculpture of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Become familiar with popular prints by Currier and Ives
Art of Japan
Become familiar withThe Great Buddha (also known as the Kamakura Buddha)
Landscape Gardens