HUMANITIES CONNECTIONS
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Visual Arts Basics
Friday February 15 - Visual Arts Basics (teacher tape)
Friday February 22 - Visual Arts Basics (student tape)

This review covers Core Content for Arts and Humanities, grades 6-8.
An extensive High School Visual Arts Scrimmage will available for students who are registered for KET's Humanities through the Arts.
For information: humanities@ket.org

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Vocabulary - Page 3

Match the Subject matter term.


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  1. Landscape

  2. Portrait

  3. Still life

  4. Abstract

  5. Non-objective

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Core Content for Arts and Humanities Assessment
Grades 9-11 with assessment at grade 11
REFERENCE CHART

Most of the visual arts terms and artists at right are covered briefly in Humanities Connections.
If you would like your students to view a longer segment, you'll find that in Humanities through the Arts.
Broadcast days are listed by each topic.
Major Movements/Time Periods/Cultures
Visual Arts
AH-H-4.3.31 Ancient and lineage-based Cultures
Near Eastern, African, European, Native American
African masks: Broadcast 5
Pyramids: Broadcasts 13 and 14
(also, Native American: Broadcasts 15, 64)
AH-H-4.3.32 Pacific Rim
Asian Cultures, China, Japan, India, Malaysia
Ceramics, textiles: Broadcast 29, 59.
AH-H-4.3.33 Classical Greece and Rome
800 BC-400 AD
Instructs and perfects humans: ritual worship. Presents the universal ideal of beauty through logic, order, reason, and moderation
Discus Thrower, The Parthenon: Broadcast 23
AH-H-4.3.34 Islamic and Judaic 500-700
Worships without "graven images," decorates surface of useful objects.
Islamic architecture: Broadcast 33, 34
AH-H-4.3.35 Medieval 800-1400
Instructs in Christian faith. Appeals to the emotions, stresses importance of religion.
Byzantine, Gothic, and Romanesque architecture: Broadcasts 32,36, 38, 39
AH-H-4.3.36 Renaissance 1400-1600
Reconciles Christian faith and reason. Promotes "rebirth" of the classical ideal. Allows new freedom of thought.
DaVinci, Michelangelo: Broadcast 46
AH-H-4.3.37 Baroque 1580-1700
Rejects the limits of previous styles. Restores the power of the monarchy/ church: excess, ornamentation, contrasts, tensions, energy.
Rembrandt, Caravaggio: Broadcast 47
AH-H-4.3.38 Neo-Classicism/"Classical" 1720-1827
Style in music. Reacts to the excesses of monarchy and ornamentation of the Baroque. Returns to order, reason and structural clarity.
David: Broadcast 52
Thomas Jefferson: Broadcast 52
AH-H-4.3.39 Romanticism 1760-1870
Revolts against neo-classical order/reason. Returns to nature/imagination: freedom, emotion, sentimentality, spontaneity: interest in the exotic, patriotic, primitive and supernatural.
Constable: Broadcast 53
Goya: See Connections, Student tape
AH-H-4.3.310 Realism 1820-1920
Seeks the truth. Finds beauty in the commonplace. Focuses on the Industrial Revolution and the conditions of working class.
Courbet: See Connections, Student tape
Manet: Broadcast 56
AH-H-4.3.311 Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 1850-1920
Shows the effects of light and atmospheric conditions. Spontaneously captures a moment of time. Expresses reality in different ways.
Monet: Broadcast 58
Van Gogh: Broadcast 60
Cassatt: Broadcast See Connections, Student tape
Rodin

AH-H-4.3.312 Modern and Contemporary 1900-Present
Breaks with or redefines the conventions of the past. Uses experimental techniques. Shows the diversity of society and the blending of cultures.

KDE CORE CONTENT for ASSESSMENT VERSION 3.0 September 1999

Picasso: Broadcast 7, 61
Warhol: Broadcast 65
O'Keeffe: See Connections, Student tape
Dali: See Connections, Student tape
Lange: Broadcast 62
Wright: Broadcast 58
Jacob Lawrence: See Connections, Student tape

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