Introduction

Over the course of the next 10 class periods, you are going to take a journey through some of History's most prominent and influential Art movements! Starting with Greek and Hellenistic Art, you are going to choose different movements to explore and discover, all the way up to today. The list of movements include: Greek and Hellenistic, Renaissance, Baroque, Realism, Impressionism and Post Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, and lastly, Postmodernism. Through this exploration, you are going to discover different artists, techniques, and styles. Once you complete your journey through these movements, you will take your knowledge and interpretations, and transform them into your own works of art!​

• L​earners:

This lesson is designed for 8th grade art learners, and will introduce the students to Art History, and some of Art's major movements. The students will walk away with a knowledge of Art History, and will be able to apply this knowledge to their own works of art.

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Curriculum Standards:

Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes:

•  Students select media, techniques, and processes; analyze what makes                them effective or not effective in communicating ideas; and reflect upon the effectiveness of their choices

Understanding the visual arts in relation to history and cultures:

• Students know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures, Students describe and place a variety of art objects in historical and cultural contexts, Students analyze, describe, and demonstrate how factors of time and place (such as climate, resources, ideas, and technology) influence visual characteristics that give meaning and value to a work of art

Making connections between visual arts and other disciplines:

• Students compare the characteristics of works in two or more art forms that share similar subject matter, historical periods, or cultural context
  Students describe ways in which the principles and subject matter of other disciplines taught in the school are interrelated with the visual arts

Reflecting upon and assessing the characteristics and merits of their work and the work of others:

• Students compare multiple purposes for creating works of art
  Students analyze contemporary and historic meanings in specific artworks through cultural and aesthetic inquiry, Students describe and compare a variety of individual responses to their own artworks and to artworks from various eras and cultures



Process:

​1. Choose a Movement (From the movements page) to discover. You may choose and discover in any order you'd like

2. Write down what you think this movement may be about before researching it.
3. Discover the aspects and impact of the chosen movement. Specifically through; Artist, Technique, and Style
4. Once you've researched the movement of your choice, rewrite your definition of that movement
5. After you have completed all you research, and thoroughly understood the movement, go to the Lessons page.
6. On the lessons page there will be four options for you, choose one. Be aware, you will complete all of these small lessons   over the course of this Webquest Project.
 

Follow the guidelines stated in each lesson, you will not work on the lesson until the day after you research. This will give you plenty of time to brain storm.



Resources Needed:

• Access to a computer
• 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of white paper
• camera
• paint
• pencils
• charcoal
• pastels
• scissors
• glue stick
• magazines (to be cut)
• large poster paper (for final projects)

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Evaluation:

The students will be graded on their exploration of the movements that they choose. If they prove through their analysis of the movement that they tried to understand the movement, they have succeeded. They will also be graded on their projects, and their effort at incorporating their movements into their art piece (It must be evident somewhere in the piece which movement they are referring to). The students will lastly be graded on their final projects, and their ability to work together and share information, making a final project that meshes two different movements together. 



Conclusion:

Now that have finished this web quest you will have successfully learned about at least four art movements! We hope you had fun, leaning about the history, style, and artists of each movement.  We hope you take this new knowledge and use it for other art classes in you future.   You have learned how to collage, and reapproprate images into styles you are not use to seeing.  We hope each of these mini lessons, and the final collaborative lesson got you interested and knowledgeable about art history and how it effects art and your life today.  Don't forget, art is all around you and art of today will reflect upon thwart of the past just as it did through all these movements.