Art Is Fundamental: Teaching the Elements and Principles of Art in Elementary School - Softcover

Eileen S. Prince

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569762163 ISBN 13: 9781569762165

Publisher: Chicago Review Press (US), 2008

Synopsis

This comprehensive art curriculum can easily be integrated into any teachers' existing instruction and provides thrilling and rewarding lessons for elementary art students, including printmaking techniques, tessellations, watercolours, calligraphic lines, organic form sculptures, and value collages. Detailed lessons - developed and tested in classrooms over many years - build on one another in a logical progression and explore the elements of texture, colour, shape, line, form, and value, and principles such as balance (formal, informal and radial,) unity, contrast, movement, distortion, emphasis, pattern and rhythm. Each lesson also represents an interdisciplinary approach that improves general vocabulary and supports science, math, social studies, and language arts. Though written for elementary school teachers, it can be easily condensed and adapted for middle or even high school students.A beautiful eight-page colour insert demonstrates just how sophisticated young children's art can be when kids are given the opportunity to develop their skills.

About this title

Review

"The art curriculum detailed in this book can be easily integrated into your existing curriculum." --Learning

"Something here for every reader . . . will be inspired." --Naea News

"Many wonderful hands-on projects . . . successful . . . will inspire current teachers in the field . . . indispensible for new art teachers." --SchoolArts

About the Author

Eileen S. Prince has been an art specialist in the Indianapolis-area schools since 1970 and is the author of the bestselling "Art Matters."

Edition details

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press (US)
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1569762163
• ISBN 13: 9781569762165
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 200