“Mommy It’s a Renoir” – Art Step 6 Lesson Activity

 
NAME OF MONTESSORI ACTIVITY Art Step 6 – Learning about the Schools of Art
AREA The Arts
AGE 3 – 9 Years
MATERIALS Montessori Helper Art Step 2 -Level 2 Materials (The children can begin to recognise the work of some of the major artists. These artist come to represent different schools of art. A school of art, is a group of artists whose paintings show a general similarity of style.
  • · French impressionistic Paintings
  • · 17th century Dutch Paintings
  • · 18th century British Portraits
  • · Geometric Abstract Paintings
  • · Primitive Paintings
  • · Japanese Paintings)
DIRECT AIM
  • To learn the names of 6 different schools of art.
INDIRECT AIM
  • Visual discrimination
  • Concentration
  • Broaden his cultural knowledge
PRESENTATION
  1. Begin with about 6 selected schools of art that are familiar to the child.
  2. Lay out the set out in a vertical or horizontal row.
  3. Ask the child if he notices any similarities about all the paintings.
  4. Tell the child that all the paintings in that folder were done by artists who worked in a particular place and used a particular style. Therefore we say they belong to a particular school of art.
  5. Point to the name of the school on the folder and find the location of that school on a world map.
CONTROL OF ERROR The cards are not matched
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