Modern Artists of Europe: Slide Shows on Seven Master Artists

Whether you’re an art teacher or a social studies teacher who wants to incorporate art into a multi-cultural unit on world history, “Modern Artists of Europe: Slide Shows on Seven Master Artists” is a unit you can use for many years to come. The narrator scripts, which accompany each slide show, focus on the artist’s style, childhood, art training, artistic reputation, curious facts, end of life, plus each of the subjects or genres in which he created art. The slide shows highlight the following artists:

• Rousseau — 35 illustrations and nearly 165 details about his life, style, and art

• Munch — 57 illustrations and more than 230 details about his life, style, and art

• Rouault — 70 illustrations and nearly 170 details about his life, style, and art

• Picasso — 66 illustrations and nearly 160 details about his life, style, and art

• Chagall — 54 illustrations and almost 200 details about his life, style, and art

• Magritte — 58 illustrations and almost 175 details about his life, style, and art

• Dali — 67 illustrations and some 190 details about his life, style, and art

Included in this unit is a teaching manual, which will guide you in using the slide shows and narrator’s scripts and a simple timeline that shows when each artist lived. In addition, a critical thinking assignment called “Artist Evaluation” will ask your students to analyze what they’ve learned about each artist as you present the slide shows. A “Grading Rubric” is included for your convenience. All slide shows are available in both Apple's Keynote and Microsoft PowerPoint. Documents are available in PDF.

If you’re interested in slide shows on master artists of other eras, I will be uploading units on:

• The High Renaissance
• The Northern Renaissance
• The Baroque
• Romanticism & Classicism
• Impressionism
• Landscape Artists
• The American Frontier
• Modern Artists of America
• Abstract Artists