Art History and Criticism
- Subject: Fine Arts
- Audience: High School
- Credits: 1 (.5 per segment)
- Prerequisites: None
- SCED: 05152 G
Description:
Students will critique and compare significant works of art and architecture from prehistory through the 16th century. Students will analyze art history and criticism methodologies, explore media and techniques used by artists from various cultures and time periods, and learn appropriate terminology for discussing artwork from around the world. This course can be used to meet a performing/fine arts requirement for high school graduation.
Iowa Core Skills or Standards:
College and Career Readiness Standards for Reading (Informational Text, Reading), Listening, Speaking, and Writing in accordance with 9th and 10th grade Iowa Core)
Why it Matters:
Art is an expression of the political, cultural, and religious changes throughout history. This course is an opportunity for students to reflect on how art was and is used as a vehicle to communicate, depict political and religious propaganda, and serve as evidence of cultural shifts and changes.
Required Materials:
Certain elements of this course require a Web browser capable of running a recent version of the Adobe Flash plugin.
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Additional Notes:
Iowa Learning Online operates on a semester model, offering enrollments for Fall, Spring, and Summer. Students must be enrolled each semester for the appropriate segment of the course they wish to take.
Course Outline:
Segment 1
Gallery 1
- 01.00: Gallery Checklist
- 01.01: Introduction of Art History and Criticism
- 01.02: Prehistoric Art
- 01.03: Neolithic Architect and Art
- 01.04: Ancient Near Eastern Art
- 01.05: Egyptian Art
- 01.06: Aegean Art and the Art of the Cyclades
Gallery 2
- 02:00: Gallery Checklist
- 02.01: Ancient Greek Art
- 02.02: Greek Archaic Period
- 02.03: Greek Classical Period
- 02.04: Greek Hellenistic Period
- 02.05: Etruscan Art
- 02.06: Roman Art
- 02.07: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
Gallery 3
- 03.00: Gallery Checklist
- 03.01: Early Christian Art
- 03.02: Byzantine Art
- 03.03: Islamic Art
- 03.04: Art of the Middle Ages
- 03.05: Carolingian and Ottoman Art
Gallery 4
- 04.00: Gallery Checklist
- 04.01: Romanesque Architecture
- 04.02: The Gothic Period
- 04.03: Gothic Art Outside of France
- 04.04: Fourteenth-Century Italian Art
- 04.05: Fourteenth-Century Florence and Siena
- 04.06: Fifteenth-Century Art
- 04.07: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
- 04.08: Segment One Exam
Segment 2
Gallery 5
- 05.00: Gallery Checklist
- 05.01: Early Renaissance Art
- 05.02: Early Renaissance Architecture
- 05.03: High Renaissance
- 05.04: Sixteenth-Century Venetian Art
- 05.05: Mannerism
- 05.06: Northern Renaissance
Gallery 6
- 06.00: Gallery Checklist
- 06.01: Italian and Spanish Baroque
- 06.02: Flemish, Dutch, French Baroque
- 06.03: Architecture and English Baroque
- 06.04: Rococo
- 06.05: Age of the Enlightenment
- 06.06: Neoclassicism
- 06.07: Romanticism
- 06.08: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
Gallery 7
- 07.00: Gallery Checklist
- 07.01: Realism
- 07.02: Impressionism
- 07.03: Post-Impressionism
- 07.04: Japanese Art
- 07.05: Fauvism and Proto-Cubism
- 07.06: African Art
- 07.07: The 'isms'
Gallery 8
- 08.00: Gallery Checklist
- 08.01: Surrealism, Suprematicism, De Stijl, and Bauhaus
- 08.02: Art Deco, Kinetic Art, Political Art, Regionalism
- 08.03: Art Brut, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Conceptual
- 08.04: Pop Art, Superrealism, and Earthworks
- 08.05: Modernist Architecture
- 08.06: Neo-Expressionism, Feminism, Technology and Art
- 08.07: Short Reflective Writing and Discussion-Based Assessment
- 08.08: Segment Two Exam