Sixth Grade and Project Examples

THE STUDENTS WILL BE GIVEN VOLUME THREE: FROM CASTLES TO COMMUNES BY EILEEN PRINCE

UNIT 1: RENAISSANCE ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Introduction with slides, videos and filmstrips. Study the rules of linear and circular perspective. Final project: student will draw a still-life in 2-point perspective. This still-life will include a sphere, a cone, a cube, and a cylinder.

UNIT 2: BAROQUE AND ROCOCO ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Introduction with slides. Study facial proportions and elements of portraiture. Preliminary "split-face" exercise, focusing on proportion and detail. Final project: students will create full-sized "self-portraits" dressed in costume appropriate to the years 1600-1775. Each student will also write an "auto-biography" to accompany his/her figure. The figures will be cut out and arranged on a black background to approximate the huge scale and CHIAROSCURO of the Baroque era.

UNIT 3: THE AGE OF REVOLUTION: NEOCLASSICISM, ROMANTICISM AND REALISM

Introduction with slides. Students will discuss landscape art and learn to draw trees realistically, drawing outside whenever possible. Final project: students will create a Realist or Romantic landscape.

AT THE CONCLUSION OF EACH UNIT, STUDENTS MAY BE ASKED TO SUBMIT (AT LEAST) FOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORKS THEY HAVE VIEWED. ONE QUESTION MUST BE FROM AN AESTHETIC PERSPECTIVE, ONE FROM A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE, ONE FROM A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND ONE QUESTION ABOUT PRODUCTION.

THE YEAR WILL INCLUDE A TRIP TO THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART TO VIEW APPROPRIATE DISPLAYS. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, DR. FRANK LYNN MESHBERGER WILL ADDRESS STUDENTS ON THE "BRAIN" IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL CEILING AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC THESES.

	A 2-point perspective still-life of a sphere, cone, cube, and cylinder.
	A split-face portrait.
	A full-sized "self-portrait" in Baroque style.