NeoClassicism and Romanticism: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists

Whether you’re an art teacher who’s focusing on art history, or a social studies teacher who wants to incorporate art into a multi-cultural unit on world history, “NeoClassicism and Romanticism: Slide Shows on Six Master Artists” — will give you the visual and narrative tools you’ll need for many years to come. The narrator’s script, which accompanies each slide show, focuses on the artist’s style, childhood, art training, artistic reputation, curious facts, end of life, and each of the subjects or genres in which he created art. The slide shows contain the following:

• Francisco Goya — 52 works of art described with more than 130 facts, and another 100 details about his life and art style
• Jacques Louis David— 36 works of art described with nearly a 110 facts, and another 75 details about his life and art style
• Casper David Friedrich— 47 works of art described with more than 105 facts, and over 90 details about his life and art style
• J.M.W. Turner — 43 works of art described with more than 120 facts, and another 90 details about his life and art style
• Theodore Gericualt —42 works of art described with more than 75 facts, and another 60 details about his life and art style
• Eugene Delacroix— 45 works of art described with some 80 facts, and nearly 70 details about his life and art style

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 text is available in PDF and the slide shows may be viewed in both Apple’s Keynote and Microsoft’s PowerPoint.

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
• Impressionism
• Post-Impressionism
• Landscape Artists
• The American Frontier
• Modern Artists of Europe
• Modern Artists of America
• Abstract Artists