High School Art History and Criticism I Honors

Module One: Really, Really Early Art

-Appropriate behavior in a museum

-How art and history are connected and the impacts on modern culture

-Identify art that has a function, symbolic art, and how art communicates ideas

-The influence of art on other art and those who view it

-Elements of art and principles of design

-Art analysis with visual and contextual elements

-Explore early art common characteristics of early art and how and why cultures created it

-How art history is connected to other disciplines

-Art from ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures

Module Two: Still Pretty Early Art

-Art from early Oceanic, South, and Southeast Asian cultures

-Art from early East Asian cultures

-Analyze the visual and contextual elements of a work of art

-Art from early Meso and South American cultures

-Art from Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaen, and early Greek cultures

-Art from the Greek periods of Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic

Module Three: Earlyish Art

-Art from Etruscan and Roman cultures

-Art from South, East, and Southeast Asian cultures between 250 BCE and 1100 CE

-Compare and contrast two artworks and how they communicate meaning

-Art from East Asia between 660 and 1581 CE

-Art from the West and Central Asian cultures between 245 and 1360 CE

-Art from African cultures between 300 to 1500 CE

Module Four: Not So Earlyish Art

-Art from Medieval and Meditteranean cultures between 500 and 1390 CE

-Art from the Americas between 600 to 1300 CE

-Art from Europe in the Romanesque and Gothic periods between 1000 to 1400 CE

-Art from Italy between 1200 to 1520 CE