The Year At A Glance
in Kindergarten 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.
Everyone will also create a fabric art and ceramics project this year. |
SeptemberWild Flowers
DecemberArt In Winter
MarchShapes In Nature
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OctoberShapes In Art
JanuaryBirds
AprilPortraits
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NovemberColor In Art
FebruarySculpture
MayLines In Art
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Core Knowledge Kindergarten Program
Lessons in the visual arts illustrate important elements of making and appreciating art, and emphasize important artists, works of art, and artistic concepts. Topics in the visual arts will often link to topics in other disciplines. The following guidelines specify a variety of artworks in different media and from various cultures. The program builds upon the core content and exposes children to a wide range of art and artists.
I. Elements of Art
The generally recognized elements of art include line, shape, form, space, light, texture, and color. In kindergarten we introduce children to line, shape and color. Students learn to recognize and use different kinds of lines shapes and colors, in art, nature and other curriculum areas.
A. COLOR
We observe how colors can create different feelings and how certain colors can seem “warm” (red, orange, yellow) or “cool” (blue, green, purple)
We observe the use of color in: Pieter Bruegel, The Hunters in the Snow
Helen Frankenthaler, Blue Atmosphere
Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Landscape
Pablo Picasso, Le Gourmet
Alice Neel, Two Girls in Spanish Harlem, 1941
Louis Smokey Kaulaity,, Lullaby (mid-20th century)
Mandy Martin, Evening Clouds (2014)
We learn how colors are organized into primary and secondary colors on a color wheel.
We observe the use of color in Piet Mondrian’s work
,B. LINE
We identify and use different lines: straight, zigzag, curved, wavy, thick & thin.
We observe different kinds of lines in
Katsushika Hokusai, Tuning the Samisen
Henri Matisse, Purple Robe and Anemones
Joan Miró, People and Dog in the Sun
Kathe Kollwitz, Sleeping Woman and Child (1929)
William H Johnson, Li'L Sis (1944)
Horace Pippen, Family Supper (1946)
- C SHAPE
II. Sculpture
We recognize and discuss the following sculptures: Northwest American Indian totem pole
Statue of Liberty
Mobiles: Alexander Calder’s Lobster Trap and Fish Tail
Sandy Skoglund, Gathering Paradise (1991)
III. Looking at and Talking about Works of Art
After children have been introduced to some elements of art and a range of artworks and
artists, we engage them in looking at pictures and talking about them.
Children are asked about their first impressions—what they notice first, and what the picture makes them think of or feel.
We go on to discuss the lines and colors, details not obvious at first, why they think the artist chose to depict things in a certain way, etc.
We observe and talk about
Pieter Bruegel. Children’s Games
Mary Cassatt. The Bath
Winslow Homer. Snap the Whip
Diego Rivera,.Mother’s Helper
Henry O. Tanner. The Banjo Lesson
Maria Izquierdo, My Nieces (1940)
Mark Tansey, Snowman, (2004)