Artwork of the Week: 52 Weeks of Art Year 1

Each week we will learn about a new work of art and the artist who created it. Where its found, its impact on history and fun facts that get conversations flowing. Students will practice describing, looking, and active viewing with peers while learning about a work of art from history. 

Our class will start with describing the art. What do you see? Pretend I can't see it? Can you paint me a word picture? How does it make you feel? Thinking about art on an individual level. As we learn we will also look at the works impact on history and art such as events that may have made it more or less popular. 

No two weeks will be the same. We will cover well-known art and lesser-known artists. We will explore different cultures, countries, and mediums. From Ancient to Modern. 

Please review the list of selected works so you are aware of what your student will learn about. 
If you would like to schedule a special time or request a specific work of art please message me.

See the schedule below for what art we are looking at for each class. 

Class Date Updated Week
Please message to start a new time section I'm happy to do so. I'm happy to start at any work of art


August 1-7

Tuesday: 6:30AM CT Week 33
Friday: 5:30PM CT Week 40
Saturday: 9:30AM CT Week 20
Sunday: 3:00PM CT Week 1

August 8-14

Tuesday: 6:30AM CT Week 34
Friday: 5:30PM CT Week 41
Saturday: 9:30AM CT Week 21
Sunday: 3:00PM CT Week 2

August 15-21

Tuesday: 6:30AM CT Week 35
Friday: 5:30PM CT Week 42
Saturday: 9:30AM CT Week 22
Sunday: 3:00PM CT Week 3

August 22-28

Tuesday: 6:30AM CT Week 36
Friday: 5:30PM CT Week 43
Saturday: 9:30AM CT Week 23
Sunday: 3:00PM CT Week 4

August 29-September 4

Tuesday: 6:30AM CT Week 37
Friday: 5:30PM CT Week 
Saturday: 9:30AM CT Week 24
Sunday: 3:00PM CT Week 5

Week 1- Girl with the Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer
Week 2- Venus de Milo (nudity)
Week 3- Primavera by Sandro Botticelli (nudity)
Week 4- American Gothic- Grant Wood
Week 5- Laocoon and His Sons (nudity)
Week 6- Pueblo Feast Day's by David Bradley
Week 7- Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue by Georgia O'Keeffe
Week 8- The Night Watch by Rembrandt
Week 9- The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
Week 10- The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (Warning)
Week 11- Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault (Nudity)
Week 12- Mask of Tutankhamen
Week 13- Falling Water by Frank Lloyd Wright
Week 14- The Scream by Kent Monkman
Week 15- Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Week 16- Whistler's Mother by James Whistler
Week 17- Double: The Persistence of Memory- Salvador Dali and Possum by an Aboriginal Artist
Week 18- Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet
Week 19- Winged Victory of Samothrace
Week 20- Four Season's by Wendy Red Star
Week 21- The Two Frida's by Frida Kahlo
Week 22- The Kiss- Gustav Klimt
Week 23- Guernica by Pablo Picasso (War Trauma)
Week 24- Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louise David
Week 25 Campbell's Soup Cans by Andy Warhol
Week 26 Color Theory (Today's lesson will look at some fun colors and we will discuss how color impacts our lives
Week 27 Mount Rushmore by Gutzon Borglum
Week 28 A Sunday Afternoon by Georges Seurat
Week 29 Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez
Week 30 Marie Watt
Week 31 Maman by Louise Bourgeois
Week 32 Non Western Insert
Week 33 Judith Beheading Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi (Please review this artist. Though we are focusing on this one painting and her self portrait her history is traumatic. I will avoid the court case as much as possible.)
Week 34 Untitled Tara Donavan (Installations)
Week 35 The Obama Portraits- President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and First Lady Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald
Week 36 The Thinker Rodin
Week 37 View of Toledo by El Greco
Week 38 The Childe's Bath by Mary Cassatte
Week 39 Nighthawks by Edward Hopper
Week 40 Ophelia by John Everette and Proserpine by Dante Rossetti (The Pre-Raphaelite's)
Week 41 Nefertiti Bust
Week 42 Among the Sierra Nevada, California by Albert Bierstadt
Week 43 The Night Cafe by Van Gogh
Week 44 The Cradle by Berthe Morisot
Week 45 Hammurabi's Code (Stele)
Week 46 Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons
Week 47 The Birth of Venus by Botticelli 
Week 48 The Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio
Week 49 The Son of Man by Magritte 
Week 50 The Fountain by Duchamp
Week 51- Winter with Norman Rockwell
Week 52- David (Nudity) Donatello and Michelangelo