Art & historical context
Watch the video below to get a quick introduction to Art History (in 4 minutes):
*DISCLAIMER: Please keep in mind that this video is meant to be HUMOROUS and is not intended to negate or take away from the serious focus we will have on Art History. (We can still have a little fun with it, though!)
Read this Art Teacher's blog entry about WHY we study art history. (Full credit for this article goes to Ms. Lila
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Use these Art History Timeline Resources to explore and choose a historical time period to focus on for your Exploring Art History sheet:
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BONUS: This is an article about an artist that create some super cool artistic representations of timelines (if you're in to that sort of thing) - http://dailyserving.com/2006/11/ward-shelley/
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Use these Art History Timeline Resources to explore and choose a historical time period to focus on for your Exploring Art History sheet:
- Use this wikipedia page as a starting point. It has a great layout and links to a multitude of different historical time periods. It is an easy way to get a snapshot idea of what is included in each time period in order to choose where to focus your (short) research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_periods
- Quick descriptions, but no images: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/art-history-timeline.html
- Short descriptions AND images... but the links do not lead to easily accessible information: http://arthistory.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timelines.htm
- Detailed descriptions, but few images: http://arthistory.about.com/od/timelines/tp/timelines.htm
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BONUS: This is an article about an artist that create some super cool artistic representations of timelines (if you're in to that sort of thing) - http://dailyserving.com/2006/11/ward-shelley/