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Curriculum

Curriculum Artists/Subjects

OCTOBER
Colors and Shapes

• Braque:  Birds
• Calder:  Hovering Bowties
• Dobson:  Hopi Jar (Paqua's Jar)
• Kahlo:  The Frame
• Mondrian:  Opposition of Lines Red and Yellow
• Tang Dynasty: Horse Tomb Figure

NOVEMBER
Stories in Art

• Caillebotte:  Paris, A Rainy Day
• Chagall:  I and the Village
• Lee:  Thanksgiving
• Tanner:  The Banjo Lesson
• Wood:  American Gothic
• Wyeth:  Christina's World

JANUARY
People at Rest Portraits

• Albright:  Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida
• Cassatt:  Woman and Child
• Mona Lisas:  daVinci, Léger, Warhol
• Picasso:  Mother and Child, Harlequin
• Self-Portraits:  Rembrandt, VanGogh
• Velázquez:  Infanta Margarita

FEBRUARY
The World Topsy-Turvy

• Giovanopoulos:  Foot
• Klee:  Head of a Man
• Magritte:  Time Transfixed
• Miro:  People, Dog and Sun
• O'Keeffe:  Sky Above Clouds IV
• Picasso:  Man with a Pipe, Three Musicians

MARCH
People in Action

• Bruegel:  Winter Landscape
• Degas:  Pink and Green Dancers in Blue
• Marshall:  Many Mansions
• Mukenga:  Mask
• Grandma Moses:  Sugaring Off
• Seurat:  Afternoon on he Island of LaGrand Jaite

APRIL
Enchanted Landscapes

• Gauguin:  Nefea
• Matisse:  Goldfish
• Monet:  The Artist's Garden
• Renoir:  Rower's Lunch/On the Terrace
• Rousseau:  The Waterfall
• Van Gogh:  Starry Night

MAY
Field Trips

• Riverside Arts Center (Kindergarten)
• Tour of Central School (1st Grade)
• To Be Determined (2nd Grade)
• Walking Tour of Riverside (3rd Grade)
• To Be Determined (4th Grade)
• Walking Tour of Chicago and The Art Institute (5th Grade)

• Jean Arp
• Jean Basquiat
• Eugène Boudin
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones
• Daniel Burnham
• Gustave Courbet
• Salvador Dalí
• Raoul Dufy
• Max Ernst
• Francisco de Goya
• Marcel Duchamp
• William de Kooning
• Marcel Duchamp
• Raoul Dufy
• Albrecht Dürer
• Max Ernst
• el Greco
• Keith Haring
• Georges Eugéne Haussmann
• Winslow Homer
• Edward Hopper
• Daniel Henry Kahnweiler
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Ernest Lawson
• Edouard Manet
• Michelangelo
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Amedeo Modigliani
• Edvard Munch
• Camille Pissaro
• Jackson Pollock
• Frederic Remington
• Diego Rivera
• Peter Paul Rubens
• Alfred Sisley
• Titian
• Henri Toulouse Latrec
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler
• Frank Lloyd Wright

Art Terms

• Abstract Expressionism
• African Art
• Art Nouveau
• Baroque
• Bauhaus
• Cubism
• Dada
• Expressionism
• Fauvism
• Futurism
• German Expressionism
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism
• Pre-Raphaelite
• Rococo
• Surrealism