KOVÁCSNÉ GAÁL ÉVA

HISTORY OF ART

PREHISTORIC AND ANCIENT ART

SYLLABUS
for the
5th GRADE
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LESSON PRESENTATION KEY TERMS / VOCABULARY DEMONSTRATION/ACTIVITIES

IMPORTANT WORKS OF ART
1-2 Introduction to Art- Painting, sculpture, architecture Colour pictures, picture cards
Branches of Fine Art Works of art MEMORY GAME
Four “A”-s chart Art , artist, activity, artefact Book: page 8-11
3-4 The Art of Prehistoric time 1 Prehistoric, Old Stone Age, New Stone Colour pictures: cave paintings
Cave painting: materials and Age, pigment, natural substances: chalk Book: page 12-15
methods, simple paints charcoal, clay, plants Lascaux, Altamira Handout: Simple paints
5-6 PRACTICAL WORK Names of animals cavemen drew, PRACTICAL WORK-Book: page15.
Method of making a cave painting Outline, figure, background Drawing a cave painting
/charcoal, pastel crayons/
7-8 The Art of Prehistoric time 2 Statuette, fertility, abundance, Colour pictures
Sculpture and colossal architecture The Venus of Willendorf Book: page 16-19
Stonehenge
9-10 The art of Ancient Egypt 1 Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Colour pictures
General review Kingdom, afterlife, pyramid, Handout: A grisly job
tomb, mummy /mummy makers/
Seated Scribe, Book: page 20-21
Prince Rahotep and his wife Nofret,
Pyramids at Giza, Sphinx,
Hunting scene from a tomb in
Thebes
11-12 Egyptian painting- Characteristic angle, side view, frontal Colour pictures
Analysing a tomb painting view, mural Book: page 22-27
Tomb paintings found at Thebes
13-14 PRACTICAL WORK Registers, characteristic views, mural Colour pictures
Making a tomb painting using

LESSON PRESENTATION
15-16 The Art of Mesopotamia
Architecture, sculpture
17-18 REVISION- Prehistoric, Egyptian
and Mesopotamian Art
19-20 The Art of Greece 1-Vase
painting
Comparison of Egyptian and
Greek drawing styles
/Greek fashion/
21-22 The Art of Greece 2-Sculpture
Perfection and harmony
23-24 The Art of Greece 3-Architecture
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Egyptian rules of drawing.
KEY TERMS / VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES / DEMONSTRATION
IMPORTANT WORKS OF ART
Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Book: page 28-31
Ziggurat, Seven Wonders of the Ancient
Word
Isthar Gate, The Hanging Gardens,
The Tower of Babel, Assyrian stone
relief
Describing and sorting out works
of art /colour pictures/
Worksheets
Black-figured, red- figured, background, Colour pictures
clay, foreshortening, Archaic period, Book: page 32-36
Exekias Painting vases
Aias and Achilles Play Draughts, The
Warrior’s Leave-taking
Classical period, Hellenistic period, Colour pictures
nude, contrapposto, bronze, marble, Book: page 37-38
Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles, Modelling figures in
Discobolos, The Apollo Belvedere, The contrapposto
Nike of Samothrace, The Venus de Milo
Temple, column, shaft, base, capital, Pictures of famous Greek
tympanum, order, Doric, Ionic, buildings
Corinthian Book: page 39-43
The Parthenon, TheTemple of Nike, Drawing different capitals
The Temple of Zeus
LESSON PRESENTATION KEY TERMS / VOCABULARY ACTIVITIES / DEMONSTRATION
IMPORTANT WORKS OF ART
25-26 The Art of Rome 1-Painting Wall painting, mosaic Pictures
Wall paintings at Pompeii, DESIGN TASK: Floor mosaic
Actor Playing the Tambourine Book: page 44-46

27-28 The Art of Rome 2-Statuary Story-telling relief carvings, portrait Pictures
busts Interpreting Trajan’s column
Marcus Aurelius, Trajan’s Column Book: page 47-48
29-30 The Art of Rome 3-Architecture Vaulting, arch, barrel vault, groin vault, Pictures
aqueduct, theatre amphitheatre, baths, Book: page 49-54
triuphal arch
Pantheon, Colosseum,
The Triumphal Arch of Titus
31-32 Comparison-Greek and Roman Preferred structure, subject of art, MEMORY GAME
Art Characteristic forms Book: page 55
33-34 The Art of Classical India Hinduism, Buddhism, The Buddha, stupa Pictures
Book: page 56-59
The Great Stupa at Sanchi, India Making clay figures
/eastern gate/
35-36 The Art of Classical China Porcelain, terracotta Pictures of Chinese paintings
The Terracotta Army, The Great Wall, Book: page 61-65
The Portrait of Confucius Chinese writing
37-38 REVISION- Greek, Roman, Book: page 32-61
Indian and Chinese GAMES WITH PICTURES
Art
39-40 Summary and general revision Book: page 66-70
MEMORY GAME
REVISION EXERCISES
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